Artist/Maker
Archibald Robertson
(1765 - 1835)
Depicted
Henry Bedlow
(1767 - 1838)
Henry Bedlow (1767–1838)
1795–1800
Watercolor on ivory
Overall: 2 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (7 × 5.7 cm)
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
1937.36
InscribedLight, partially faded original inscription:
"Grandfather / Henry Bedlow / Left by / Katharine Rutgers Lincoln / to Katharine Rutgers Bache Wil / merding / 1909"
Subsequent version written above the original text in darker ink:
"Grandfather / HENRY BEDLOW / (Bedloo; Bedloe; Bedlow) / Left by / Katharine Rutgers Lincoln / to / Katharine Rutgers Bache Wilmerding / 1909"
ClassificationsMINIATURES
Archibald Robertson
ca. 1798
1864.14
Archibald Robertson
ca. 1798
1864.15