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List of illustrations

  • Elizabeth Eggington
  • Woman of the Gibbes or Shoolbred Family
  • David Lyell
  • James Peale Painting a Miniature
  • Benjamin Frederick Augustus Dashiell, disassembled miniature
  • Lucretia Tuckerman Wier, reverse showing hairwork
  • Lady, reverse showing a landscape
  • Gentleman, reverse
  • Miniaturist's sample case
  • Daniel Parke
  • Queen Charlotte (1744–1818)
  • Walter Stewart
  • Mrs. Walter Stewart (Deborah McClenachan)
  • Mrs. Walter Stewart (Deborah McClenachan), detail of portrait miniature bracelets
  • Dr. Hezekiah Beardsley
  • Mrs. Hezekiah Beardsley (Elizabeth Davis)
  • A Woman in Love (also known as Margaret "Peg" Woffington)
  • Romance Allegory
  • Friendship or Romance Allegory
  • Gentleman, reverse
  • Miss Mary Tilghman (Mrs. Edward Roberts)
  • Sarah Bell
  • Lady
  • Lady, reverse
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait, detail viewed under a microscope
  • Self-Portrait, reverse
  • The Artist and His Family
  • Self-Portrait Miniature/Miniature of a Woman
  • Matthias and Thomas Bordley
  • Matthias and Thomas Bordley
  • Matthias and Thomas Bordley, comparative details of two versions
  • Matthias and Thomas Bordley, comparative details of two versions
  • Matthias and Thomas Bordley, comparative details of two versions
  • George Walton
  • Andrew Oliver
  • Mrs. Andrew Oliver (Mary Sanford)
  • Mrs. Samuel C. Waldo (Grizzel Oliver)
  • Peter Oliver
  • Reverend Samuel Fayerweather
  • Reverend Samuel Fayerweather, detail of eye
  • Self-Portrait of John Singleton Copley
  • Self-Portrait
  • Ebenezer Storer II
  • Mrs. Ebenezer Storer II (Elizabeth Green)
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait, detail
  • Self-Portrait, detail of reverse
  • Jedediah Morse
  • Jedediah Morse, reverse
  • Jedediah Morse, detail of reverse
  • New York Dandy
  • John Ramage's work desk and tools
  • Sample card, Mourning, Love, and Fancy
  • Romantic Allegory
  • Anthony Rutgers
  • Mrs. Alexander Rose (Margaret Smith), reverse
  • Mrs. Alexander Rose (Margaret Smith)
  • Anthony Rutgers, detail; Mrs. Alexander Rose (Margaret Smith), detail
  • George Washington
  • George Washington
  • Eleanor (Nelly) Parke Custis (Mrs. Lawrence Lewis), reverse of George Washington
  • George Washington
  • George Washington, decorative pin
  • George Washington
  • George Washington, alternate view
  • Eliza Jane Fay
  • Memorial for George Washington
  • Mrs. George Washington (Martha Dandridge, Mrs. Daniel Parke Custis)
  • Mrs. Washington (Martha Dandridge, Mrs. Daniel Parke Custis), detail
  • Mrs. George Washington (Martha Dandridge, Mrs. Daniel Parke Custis), reverse
  • Mrs. George Washington (Martha Dandridge, Mrs. Daniel Parke Custis), detail of reverse
  • Mourning Ring for Thomas Clap
  • Mourning Ring for Thomas Clap, detail
  • Mourning Ring for John Brovort Hicks
  • Mourning Brooch for SP, ARP, and SP
  • Mrs. Caleb Bull (Mary Otis), reverse
  • Mrs. Caleb Bull (Mary Otis)
  • Caleb Bull
  • Memorial for Hannah Hodges
  • Memorial for Hannah Hodges, detail
  • Memorial for Henry G. Staats
  • Memorial for Henry G. Staats, reverse
  • Memorial for Solomon and Joseph Hays
  • Memorial for Solomon and Joseph Hays, reverse
  • Memorial to His Mother, Sarah Sully
  • Memorial for Abigail Rogers
  • Mrs. Daniel Denison Rogers (Abigail Bromfield)
  • Maternal Allegory
  • Memorial for S. C. Washington
  • Memorial for S. C. Washington, detail
  • Harriet Mackie (The Dead Bride)
  • Harriet Mackie (The Dead Bride), detail
  • Atala at the tomb
  • Young et sa fille
  • Harriet Mackie (The Dead Bride), reverse
  • Gentleman
  • Gentleman
  • Gentleman, detail
  • Dr. Alexander Gray
  • Joseph Anthony, Jr.
  • Hore Browse Trist
  • Hore Browse Trist, reverse
  • Mrs. William Dunlap (Elizabeth Woolsey)
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait, detail
  • Edward Greene Malbone's ivory painting case
  • Thomas Russell
  • Thomas Russell, detail
  • Thomas Russell
  • Thomas Russell
  • Thomas Russell
  • Hon. Thomas Russell and Mrs. Thomas Russell (Elizabeth Watson)
  • Thomas Russell, reverse
  • Archibald Taylor
  • Mrs. Richard Sullivan (Sarah Russell)
  • Mrs. Richard Sullivan (Sarah Russell), detail
  • David Bradlee
  • David Bradlee, reverse
  • Young Lady in a Sheer White Dress
  • Young Lady in a Sheer White Dress, painting on back of ivory
  • Gentleman
  • Child of the Briggs Family
  • Mrs. Charles Briggs (Eliza Bassal Meiller)
  • Charles Briggs
  • Rembrandt Peale
  • Robert Kennedy
  • John Frederick Rohr
  • Commander Samuel Woodhouse
  • Commander Samuel Woodhouse, detail
  • Captain James Lawrence
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Andrew Jackson, detail
  • James Peale by Lamplight
  • Rosalba Peale
  • Eleanor Britton (Mrs. William Musgrave)
  • Lady with a Shawl
  • Lieutenant John Trumbull Ray
  • Lieutenant John Trumbull Ray, detail
  • Lieutenant John Trumbull Ray, detail
  • Trade card
  • Anson Dickinson's paintbox, brushes (called pencils), and reducing glass
  • General Epaphroditus Champion
  • Mrs. Epaphroditus Champion (Lucretia Hubbard)
  • The Honorable Asa Bacon
  • Epaphroditus Champion Bacon
  • Self-Portrait
  • H. F. Plowden Weston
  • Young Lady in White
  • Mrs. Theodore Gourdin (Elizabeth Gaillard)
  • Theodore Gourdin, reverse of Mrs. Theodore Gourdin
  • Theodore Gourdin, detail; Mrs. Theodore Gourdin (Elizabeth Gaillard), detail
  • Mrs. John LaBruce (Martha Pawley)
  • Mrs. John LaBruce (Martha Pawley)
  • Beauty Revealed (Self-Portrait)
  • Eye
  • William Samuel Johnson
  • Mrs. William Samuel Johnson (Laura Woolsey)
  • William Samuel Johnson, detail; Mrs. William Samuel Johnson (Laura Woolsey), detail
  • Mrs. William Samuel Johnson (Laura Woolsey), detail
  • Thomas Cole
  • Self-Portrait
  • James P. Smith
  • Lid of a daguerreotype case
  • Child in a Pink Dress
  • Lid, engraved "MAS," of gold locket
  • Lady of the Sully Family
  • Gentleman
  • Anne Sherman
  • Young Girl, Hand on Shoulder
  • Susan Wetherill (Mrs. George Hewitt Cushman)
  • Susan Wetherill (Mrs. George Hewitt Cushman), uncased
  • Catherine Bohlen
  • Catherine Bohlen, detail
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~The portrait miniature stands apart from any other art form in its highly personal associations. Whereas easel portraits present a public self meant to face outward, portrait miniatures reveal a private self meant to face inward. Stepping back to see a full-scale portrait in its entirety provides a fundamentally different experience from bending toward a miniature...
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~Depictions of people wearing miniatures eloquently testify to the personal significance and social function of these tiny mementos. Both sexes were portrayed in miniatures, and both commissioned, collected, and cherished them. However, paintings of miniatures worn as fashion accessories...
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~In 1758 or 1759 Benjamin West, then a struggling young artist, limned his self-portrait, housed it in a silver locket, and offered it to Elizabeth Steele of Philadelphia, along with a proposal of marriage (fig. 24). She accepted the love token but not the hand of the man who painted it. Soon afterward, West left America for good,...
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~At about the time Copley was sailing to England, Joseph Dunkerley, whose works are sometimes confused with Copley’s because of their delicacy, tiny size, and similar casework, was heading for the colonies, where he became one of the first important miniaturists of the new republic. He...
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~Mourning rings, brooches, and lockets convey, in a different way from the written word, how much our understanding of death and our relationship to those who have died have changed over time. In mourning rings...
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~Around the turn of the century, the demand for miniatures increased. The mood of the federal era can be seen in Robert Field’s celebration of Martha Washington’s undying love for her husband and P. R. Vallée’s homage to a dead bride. The graceful aesthetics of these portraits, and the high level of private embellishment through hairwork and...
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~A sea change in public taste had taken place when the small, densely painted miniatures of the colonial era were overtaken by the large, transparent ivories of the federal era, heralded by British miniaturists like Archibald Robertson and exemplified in America by the work of Edward Greene...
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~One of the first scholars of miniature painting in America observed in 1927, “The miniature in the presence of the photograph was like a bird before a snake: it was fascinated—even to the fatal point of imitation—and then it was swallowed.”Wehle 1927, 69. In fact, the...
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