Charles Peale Polk
Shinah Solomon Etting (Mrs. Elijah Etting)
1791
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 40 1/8 × 32 1/2 × 2 3/8 in. (101.9 × 82.6 × 6 cm.)
Sight: 35 1/2 × 27 1/2 in. (90.2 × 69.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Whitridge, Stevenson, Maryland
Object Number
1968.14
Subject to her daughter, Fanny Etting Taylor; to her daughter, Jane Taylor Poor; to her daughter, Cornelia Poor Mayer; to her daughter, Jane Mayer Bradford; Adams-Davidson and Company, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1967
Adams-Davidson and Company, Inc., Washington, D.C., Catalogue, 1967, pp. 2, 37, no. 65, ill. [incorrectly identified as Jane Etting Taylor, daughter of Shinah Etting and wife of Robert Tavlor]
Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore, "Star Spangled Heritage of Baltimore Jewry-Bicentennial Celebration," Jan. 18-Mar. 14, 1976, n.p., no. 1
BMA, "Maryland Heritage," Apr. 20-June 20, 1976, p. 80, no. 42, ill.
DAR Museum, Washington, D.C., "The Jewish Community in Early America: 1654-1830," Dec. 11, 1980-Mar. 15, 1981, p. 3
Linda Crocker Simmons, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Charles Peale Polk, 1767-1822, A Limner and his Likenesses," July 18-Sept. 6, 1981, p. 42, no. 57, ill. (circulated to Williamsburg)
Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore, "Star Spangled Heritage of Baltimore Jewry-Bicentennial Celebration," Jan. 18-Mar. 14, 1976, n.p., no. 1
BMA, "Maryland Heritage," Apr. 20-June 20, 1976, p. 80, no. 42, ill.
DAR Museum, Washington, D.C., "The Jewish Community in Early America: 1654-1830," Dec. 11, 1980-Mar. 15, 1981, p. 3
Linda Crocker Simmons, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Charles Peale Polk, 1767-1822, A Limner and his Likenesses," July 18-Sept. 6, 1981, p. 42, no. 57, ill. (circulated to Williamsburg)
Davidson, Ruth. “Museum Accessions,” Antiques 94 (November, 1968): 680, illus.; Maryland Heritage, p. 80, item 42, illus.;
Simmons, Linda Crocker. "Charles Peale Polk: A Limner and his Likenesses," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, July 18 to September 6, 1981, and at four other museums, September 27, 1981 - October 15, 1982. [Catalog of an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, July 18 - September 6, 1981]
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, pp. 130-131, ill. p. 131.
Beeber, Emily Rose, "Shinah Solomon Etting: Jewish Matriarch of Early Baltimore," online article, Baltimore Museum of Art, March 3, 2024.
https://stories.artbma.org/shinah-solomon-etting-jewish-matriarch-of-early-baltimore/
Inscribed: Signed on lower left: “C.P. Polk pinxit 1792”
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 07
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