*, Ruth Henshaw Bascom

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Description

Ruth Henshaw Bascom
Portrait of Charles Mann, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts
pastel on paper, cut to profile with appliquèd gold foil necklace
framed 18 by 13 1/2 in. 45.58 by 34.3 cm.

painted 1832; in a period frame. Charles is the brother of Helen Mann Rugg (Lot 19); Bascom's journal records his image as having been taken on several dates in 1832. The back of the portrait is inscribed Charles in pencil along the top of his head and the bottom of his shoulder, most likely by Mrs. Bascom herself.

Provenance

Stephen Score, Boston, Massachusetts

Frank J. Miele, New York

Literature

Supplement to A Loving Likeness: American Folk Portraits of the Nineteenth Century, Princeton, New Jersey, 1997, p. 2

Catalogue Note

This particular profile image is composed of two pieces of paper held together with a thread. The blue background is a period replacement.