Isaiah Thomas Sr. (1749-1831), 1805

| William M. S. Doyle (1769-1828)
| watercolor on ivory
| 2 3/4 x 2 13/16 (6.9850 x 7.1437)
| partial signature at l.l.: "...yle/..5"
| Gift of Isaac Rand Thomas, 1947
| Weis 123

Ex. Coll.: sitter, bequeathed to his granddaughter Elizabeth Cornelia Simmons Randall (1813-91), to her daughters Clara Elizabeth and Mary Thomas Randall, purchased from them by the Boston antique dealer Otto Wiecker, sold to the donor in 1914. 1

Publications:
Freemason's Magazine 2(November 1811): 81, engraved by William R. Jones.

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1. Charles L. Nichols, Portraits of Isaiah Thomas (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1921): 13-14, no. 10.