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  • Sully, Thomas,
     
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  • Primitive -- Mourning
     
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  • Homage -- Sully, Sarah
     
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  • Figure female -- Full length
     
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  • Architecture -- Monument
     
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  • Landscape -- Tree
     
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    Memorial to his Mother, Sarah Sully, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872, painter.
    Title: 
    Memorial to his Mother, Sarah Sully, (painting).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1801.
    Medium: 
    Watercolor and chopped hair on ivory.
    Dimensions: 
    Circle: 1 3/8 x 1 3/8 in. (3.5 x 3.5 cm)
    Inscription: 
    (On plinth:) SACRED TO THE / MEMORY / OF / SARAH SULLY (On urn:) ss unsigned
    Description: 
    A full-length female leans over a plinth under a willow tree. An urn is set on the stone.
    Subject: 
    Primitive -- Mourning
    Homage -- Sully, Sarah
    Figure female -- Full length
    Architecture -- Monument -- Gravestone
    Landscape -- Tree -- Willow Tree
    Object Type: 
    Miniature
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 Accession Number: 1940.536
    References: 
    Frank, Robin Jaffee, "Love and loss: American portrait and mourning miniatures," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000, no. 72.
    "A checklist of American paintings at Yale University," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982.
    Illustration: 
    Frank, Robin Jaffee, "Love and loss: American portrait and mourning miniatures," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000, pg. 132.
    "A checklist of American paintings at Yale University," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982, #1400m, P. 135
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 07261567
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