Exhibition

Fashion on the Ohio Frontier: 1790-1840
Broadbent Gallery: July 26, 2003, to January 18, 2004
Anne Bissonnette, Curator

 

Left:
Portrait of Lucinda Maria Sterret Murphy
Oil on canvas by Joseph Jackson,
Chillicothe, Ohio, 1839, unsigned.
Collection of the Ross County Historical Society, 1941.88.02.

 

Right:
Portrait of General William Sumter Murphy
Oil on canvas by Joseph Jackson,
Chillicothe, Ohio, 1839, signed and dated.
Collection of the Ross County Historical Society, 1941.88.01.

 

General Murphy was a Chillicothe lawyer who, for his service in the Henry Harrison presidential campaign of 1840, was appointed to a special commission to Honduras and as Chargé D'Affaires to the Republic of Texas in 1843, where he died of yellow fever at Galveston in 1844.

 
GARMENT FROM THE SAME TIME PERIOD
   

 

PORTRAITS FROM THE SAME TIME PERIOD
   

 

CLICK ON IMAGES ABOVE FOR VIEWS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF SIMILAR ARTIFACT OF REPRESENTATION OF GARMENT FOUND IN OTHER OHIO COLLECTIONS

 

SPONSORED BY:
  


  

   
and a Stella Blum Travel Grant from the Costume Society of America.
   


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