File:Wright Catharine Muhlenberg c.1790.jpg
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[edit]Joseph Wright: Portrait of Catharine Schaeffer Muhlenberg (1750-1835) ( ) | |||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q6288081 |
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Title |
Portrait of Catharine Schaeffer Muhlenberg (1750-1835) |
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Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Description |
Catharine Schaeffer Muhlenberg was the wife of Frederick Muhlenberg, Congressman from Pennsylvania, and the first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. The portrait was published in Henrietta Meier Oakley and J. C. Schwab, The Muhlenberg Album, (New Haven, CT: Tuttle Press, 1910).[1] |
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Date |
circa 1790 date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 124.5 cm (49 in); width: 96 cm (37.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,124.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,96U174728 |
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Current location |
On long-term loan to The Speaker's House Museum, Trappe, Pennsylvania. |
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Source/Photographer | Lisa Minardi, "Rediscovering the Muhlenberg Family," Antiques & Fine Arts, volume 17, number 2 (Summer 2018), page 111, Gavin Ashworth, photographer.[2] | ||||||||||||||||
Other versions | This is the pendant portrait to Joseph Wright's 1790 portrait of Frederick Muhlenberg, now at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. |
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current | 22:04, 23 April 2018 | 1,140 × 1,505 (217 KB) | BoringHistoryGuy (talk | contribs) | {{Artwork |artist ='''Joseph Wright''' (1756-1793) [https://www.incollect.com/articles/rediscovering-the-muhlenberg-family] |title =''{{Portrait of|Catharine Schaeffer Muhlenberg (1750-1835)}} |description=Catharine Schaeffer Muhlenberg was the wife of Frederick Muhlenberg, the first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. |date ={{otherdate|c|1790}} |medium ={{Technique|oil}} |dimensions =49 x 37-3/4 inches |institution= |location = On long-term loan to The Speak... |
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- Joseph Wright (American painter)
- 1750 births
- 1835 deaths
- Muhlenberg family
- Frederick Muhlenberg
- Trappe, Pennsylvania
- 1790 oil on canvas paintings in the United States
- 1790 portrait paintings of women
- 18th-century oil portraits of sitting women at three-quarter length
- 18th-century portrait paintings in the United States
- Portrait paintings of sitting women with right hand holding books
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- 1790s portrait paintings from the United States (female)