Portrait Miniature of Beulah R. F. Price
date: label: Date made
content: 1894
name: label: case maker; retailer
content: Starr, Theodore B.
notes: label: Description
content: Oval bust-length portrait of an older woman with blue eyes and dark hair graying at the temple, turned and looking to the viewer's right, her head in profile. She wears a light purple gown trimmed with white lace; a fur stole or wrap is draped around her right shoulder. No jewelry. Greenish gray background; light is from right. Signed at lower right. Housing includes a shallow convex lens, burnished gilt bezel, and matte gilt case with post-and-ring hanger; case reverse is engraved "Beulah R. F. Price / 1894." and struck "T. B. STARR. (arched) / N.Y." at top. Hangs in a red velvet-covered display frame fitted to hold eight miniatures, 1989.0343.16-.23.
label: Description
content: Artist is Isabelle Victoria Hayward (1868-1967) of New York, NY, and Paterson (Manchester), Passaic, NJ.
label: Description
content: Case retailed by Theodore B. Starr of New York, NY; business was founded by Starr (1837-1907) in 1877 as successor firm of Marcus & Starr, was then incorporated by his sons in 1907 and purchased by Reed & Barton in 1918, who used the Starr name until circa 1924.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place painted
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place painted
content: United States: New Jersey, Paterson
label: place case made; retailed
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Elizabeth G. Cooke
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0343.16
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0343.16
label: accession number
content: 1989.0343
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: watercolor (painting material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (painting material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (lens material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (case finish material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 3 in x 4 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 7.62 cm x 12.065 cm