Sarah Miriam Peale
Catherine Embury Mankin
1814-1824
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Sarah Miriam Peale
Catherine Embury Mankin
1814-1824
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 49 1/4 x 39 3/8 x 3 in. (125.1 x 100 x 7.6 cm) Unframed: 40 x 30 1/8 in. (101.6 x 76.5 cm) Sight: 39 3/8 x 29 3/8 in. (100 x 74.6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Misses Mankin
Object Number
1916.1.3
This may be a posthumous portrait of young Catharine Mankin, her death symbolized by the rose in her hand, plucked from the living bush.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1916; Descended through the Mankin family, Baltimore, to the subject's nieces.
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, pp. 127-128, ill. p. 127.
