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Portrait Miniature - Elizabeth Hannah Canfield Tallmadge (1792-1863)

c1910-01-3

Portrait miniature of Elizabeth Hannah Canfield (Mrs. Frederick Augustus Tallmadge) (1792/93-1878). Watercolor on ivory oval bust portrait of a blue-eyed woman in an empire style blue dress with low cut front, short sleeves, a bow at the waist and a pale blue cloche type hat with a wide brim and creamy yellow ribbon piping decoration. Four prominent ringlets on her forehead escape the hat. Subject faces and glances to her left. Background is white, highlighted with light blue. The miniature is encased in an oval frame with slip open back made of gilded brass. A stamped loop tops the frame, which is decorated on the facade with stamped decoration simulating ribbon-bound reeds. The manufactured front of the frame is made of a strip of metal which is curved into an oval and soldered. A break in the metal can be seen on the front frame. Frame is much later than the miniature. Miniature is faced with slightly convex oval glass. Four heavy rag paper ovals back the ivory, with one faced in black directly on ivory. Ivory is oval with yellowed residue on reverse. Elizabeth Hannah Canfield was a student at the Litchfield Female Academy in 1809.

Elizabeth Hannah Canfield was the daughter of Judson and Mabel Ruggles Canfield and married Frederick Tallmadge, son of Col. Benjamin and Maria Tallamdge

• Lane, William Jared, 1789-1867

1809

OH: 3 3/4 in. x OW: 2 1/4 in. x OD: 7/16 in.

• ivory
• paint
• brass
• glass