Mary Thomas Fowle Thomas (1750-1818), 1804

| Attr. to Gerrit Schipper (1775-c. 1830)
| pastel on paper
| 8 3/4 x 7 7/8 (22.2 x 20)
| Gift of Frances Crocker Sloane, 1945
| Weis 126

Ex. Coll.: sitters, owned by their granddaughter Elizabeth Cornelia Simmons Randall (1813-1891), to her daughters Clara Elizabeth and Mary Thomas Randall, around 1914 to Frances Hill Bigelow, sold via the Copley Gallery in 1928 to the donor. 1

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1. These pastels may be the images bequeathed in 1831 by Isaiah Thomas, Sr. to his grandson Isaiah Thomas III (b. 1810). See Charles Nichols, The Portraits of Isaiah Thomas (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1921): 9.