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).
Title
[Lucy Howe Bancroft]
Published
1872?
Full Collection Name
Framed items from the collections of The Bancroft Library
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 19xx.500:041--FR
Type
Image
Extent
1 painting : oil ; visible oval image 74 x 61.2 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Painted signature (LL): L. Haus. Title (plaque on frame, LC): Lucy Howe Bancroft. Inventory stamp (verso): Oct. 1951 (#794).
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