Prior-Hamblen School, 19th Century

full-length rendering of a seated baby girl wearing a red dress with black dots and lace trim and holding a rattle and a small ball; grey-blue eyes and the expression of her mouth suggest that these toys might have represented only a momentary distraction for a bright and mischievous child; seated on a patterned carpet; taupe background and swag curtain with tassels framing the upper section. Stretcher and gilded frame of the period.

Order of the Cincinnati, New Hampshire Chapter of the national historical organization of descendants of officers serving under General Washington during the American Revolution, 1988
Marguerite Riordan, Stonington, Connecticut, January 1989