| Provenance |
(a) Mrs. Matthew Cresswell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (on loan at Independence Hall, Philadelphia); |
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(a) by 1955, her granddaughter, Helen Cresswell Ellwanger, Rochester, New York, great-great-great-granddaughter of the subject. |
| Current repository |
Helen Cresswell Ellwanger, Rochester, New York, United States, private. |
| Color notes |
(b) Brown hair and eyes, white cap and kerchief. Brown background. |
| Attribution history |
(a) Artist unknown. (b) Appears to be an original drawing of the 18th century. |
| Subject |
(a) Jane Oldman, daughter of Thomas Oldman, married Daniel Williams on January 27, 1746. Their son, Ennion Williams (c) (1752-1832) was a major in the First Battalion, Miles' Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, of the Continental Army. |
| Images |
Photograph, Thurman Rotan 53055a Frick Art Reference Library, New York (FARL) negative (with frame). |
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Photograph, Thurman Rotan 53055 Frick Art Reference Library, New York (FARL) negative (without frame). |
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Digital image, Thurman Rotan 53055a_POST.tif Frick Art Reference Library, New York (FARL) negative (with frame). |
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Digital image, Thurman Rotan 53055_POST.tif Frick Art Reference Library, New York (FARL) negative (without frame). |
| Sources |
(a) Helen Cresswell Ellwanger, verbally, June 15, 1955. |
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(b) Library staff, June 15, 1955. |
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(c) Sellers, Charles Coleman. Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale. Philadelphia, 1952, p.249 (984). |
| LC subject |
Anonymous, American School, 18th cent.
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Williams, Jane Oldman, fl. 1746.
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Art, American.
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| Other subject |
Drawings: Portraits: Women.
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| Form |
American School.
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Drawings (visual works)
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Reproductions.
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| Related corporate bodies |
Frick Art Reference Library.
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| Private collection |
Helen Cresswell Ellwanger, art collection.
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| Frick artist name form |
American School (18th century).
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| Fund |
Record created with funding from The
National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Record created with funding from The
Henry Luce Foundation.
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