Mother of Senator Stanford

Name/Title

Mother of Senator Stanford

Entry/Object ID

L1982.13.02b

Type of Painting

Easel

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on paper board

Subject Person

Elizabeth Phillips Stanford

Made/Created

Time Period

19th Century

Interpretative Labels

Label

Courtesy Cantor Art Center, Stanford University.

Label

Portrait of Elizabeth Phillips Stanford, mother of CSH resident Josiah Stanford and his brothers, Leland, Dewitt, Charles, Thomas and Asa. Both this, and a companion portrait of her husband, Josiah Sr., are examples of chromolithography, or color lithography.