Instructions

Click on the circles to learn the meaning behind items in the portrait.

Learn More

Read an in depth history of this 1780 painting and its painter in the Colonial Williamsburg journal.

Visit

See the painting on display at The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.

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From the Colonial Williamsburg Collections