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Portrait of Mrs. Dunlap (Mother of J.R. Lowell's Second Wife)

Samuel Worcester Rowse (American, 1822–1901)
1844–92

Medium/Technique Charcoal on brown paper
Dimensions Sheet: 58.5 x 43.1 cm (23 1/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Burnett in name of James Russell Lowell
Accession Number92.2571
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

ProvenanceProbably Lydia Chapman Dunlap (the sitter; b. 1783 - d. 1858), Beverly, MA; probably by descent to her daughter, Frances H. Dunlap Lowell (b. 1825 - d. 1885) and her husband, James Russell Lowell (b. 1819 - d. 1891), Cambridge, MA; to his daughter, Mabel Lowell Burnett (b. 1847 - d. 1898), Cambridge; 1892, gift of Mabel Lowell Burnett to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 1, 1892)