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American Paintings and Sculpture
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Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: John Inigo Greenwood, American, 1727–1792
Subject: Elizabeth Moffatt Sherburne, American, 1729/30–1762/63
Elizabeth Moffatt Sherburne (1729/30–1762/3)
ca. 1750
Oil on canvas
36 1/8 × 28 3/8 in. (91.8 × 72 cm)
John Hill Morgan, B.A. 1893, LL.B. 1896, M.A. (Hon.) 1929, and Robert W. Carle, B.A. 1897, Funds
1983.18
Geography:
Made in United States
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
American
Period:
18th century
Classification:
Paintings
Bibliography:
Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 4, 196–97, no. 103, ill.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
