Title:
[Lucy Howe Bancroft]
Creator/Contributor:
Haus, L., artist
Abstract:
Content/DescriptionHalf length portrait of an elderly woman wearing a white lace bonnet and a black lace shawl and collar,
seated in a decorative chair. A brooch at her neck bears the years 1822-1872. Lucy Damaris (Howe) Bancroft (1799-1882) was
the mother of Hubert Howe Bancroft and wife of Azariah Ashley Bancroft, whose portrait is the companion piece to this one.
The portraits were possibly made in commemoration of the celebration of their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1872 (see xCS71.B2).
Date:
[1872?]
Subject:
Bancroft, Lucy, -- 1882- -- Portraits
Type:
Oil paintings
Portraits
Physical Description:
1 painting : oil ; visible oval image 74 x 61.2 cm.
Painted signature (LL): L. Haus. Title (plaque on frame, LC): Lucy Howe Bancroft. Inventory stamp (verso): Oct. 1951 (#794).
Local Call Number:
BANC PIC 19xx.500:041--FR
Filename:
brk00001352_20a.tif
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