Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   Search Images   About

Keyword Browse Combined Highlights Search History All Catalogs

Search:  Artist BrowseTitle BrowseSubject BrowseObject Type Browse Owner Browse       Refine Search     > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Folger, James Walter,     Portrait female -- Barney, Nathaniel, Mrs. (Eliza Starbuck)     Portrait female -- Barney, Nathaniel, Mrs. (Eliza Starbuck)     Architecture interior -- Domestic     Architecture interior -- Detail     Occupation -- Domestic     Animal -- Cat     Object -- Furniture     Object -- Other     Painting

Old Maidish, (painting). Artist:  Folger, James Walter, 1851-1918, painter. Title:  Old Maidish, (painting). Dates:  1889. Medium:  Oil on panel. Dimensions:  12 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. Inscription:  (On verso:) Painted by Jas. Walter Folger/Nantucket 1889/Mass./Subject 'Old Maidish'/Fireplace on Liberty Street signed Description:  An elderly woman (Eliza Starbuck Barney) sits in a chair next to a fireplace. She knits and a cat plays with the ball of yarn on the floor. A clock, candle, and various containers are on the mantel. Subject:  Portrait female -- Barney, Nathaniel, Mrs. (Eliza Starbuck) -- Elderly Portrait female -- Barney, Nathaniel, Mrs. (Eliza Starbuck) -- Full length Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House Architecture interior -- Detail -- Fireplace Occupation -- Domestic -- Sewing Animal -- Cat Object -- Furniture -- Clock Object -- Other -- Container Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554 Accession Number: 64.22.1 Remarks:  Eliza Starbuck Barney (1802-1889) was Nantucket's foremost genealogist. References:  Jehle, Michael A., ed., "Picturing Nantucket: an art history of the island with paintings from the collection of the Nantucket Historical Association: works by artists born before 1900," Nantucket, MA: Nantucket Historical Association, 2000, fig. 118. Nantucket Historical Association, 1977. Illustration:  Jehle, Michael A., ed., "Picturing Nantucket: an art history of the island with paintings from the collection of the Nantucket Historical Association: works by artists born before 1900," Nantucket, MA: Nantucket Historical Association, 2000, pg. 109. 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 22070019   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 22070019 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact