Mrs. Eliza Pierie

Description Conservation Provenance Inscription Credit

Description The engraved inscription on the back of this miniature attributes it to Bass Otis and identifies the sitter as Eliza Pierie. An Eliza Pierie (1822-1845) was the daughter of Bass and Alice Otis according to a gravestone inscriptions in the Christ Church burial-grounds in Philadelphia.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/05/1964	Treatment	other

Provenance Otis family, Philadelphia (?); A. J. Fink [date and mode of acquisition unknown, from the artist's family]; A.J. Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.

Inscriptions [Inscription] Engraved on back of frame: Eliza Pierie / By / Bass Otis

Credit Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963

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Creator

Bass Otis (American, 1784-1861) (Artist)

Period

ca. 1810

Medium

watercolor on ivory
(Miniatures)

Accession Number

38.442

Measurements

H excluding frame: 2 7/8 x W: 1 1/2 in. (7.3 x 3.81 cm); Framed H: 3 1/8 x W: 1 3/4 in. (7.94 x 4.45 cm)

Geographies

USA (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View