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Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry (Elizabeth Champlin Mason)
Robert Fulton (American, 1765–1815)
about 1811
Medium/Technique
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions
8.89 x 6.98 cm (3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of James J. Storrow, Jr.
Accession Number1985.86
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsMiniatures
An engineer as well as a painter, Fulton is best known for inventing the first commercially successful steamboat.
ProvenanceThe artist; descended in family of the sitter to Mrs. James J. Storrow, 1929; to James J. Storrow, Jr. 1954; to MFA, 1985, bequest of James J. Storrow, Jr.