Framed Painting: Isabella Montgomery Stitt

Name/Title

Framed Painting: Isabella Montgomery Stitt

Entry/Object ID

994.17.2

Description

The object is a wooden framed charcoal painting portrait of a woman's upper body. The woman is dressed in an overcoat, a neck scarf and a bonnet. The portrait is encased within glass. The frame is separated in two different sections, the outside and inside frame. The outside edge frame is many-piece gilt wood that is brown in colour and the inside of the frame that encompasses the portrait is plaster that is gold to brown in colour. The outside edge design of the frame has a textured and layered look that resembles metal chain links while the plaster inside frame has 3 types of decorative motifs. Numbered on back of frame, bottom corner.

Artwork Details

Medium

paper, wood, papier, de bois, charcoal, charbon de bois, glass, verre, plaster, enduit

Context

This women married into one of the founding families of the Stittsville community.

Made/Created

Date made

1840

Notes

Additional create date: 1870

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Charcoal Portrait, Painting

Dimensions

Height

73 cm

Width

63 cm

Depth

4 cm

Dimension Notes

2019-10-03 Vertical Measurements of the frame holding the charcoal painting.

Relationships

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Notes

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