Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831), 1859

| Benjamin Kinney (1821-1888)
| plaster, black paint
| 25 (h) (63.50)
| incised on right side: “Hon. ISAIAH THOMAS/Founder & first President/of the/American Antiquarian Society/By/B. H. Kinney/1859.”
| Gift of Peter Mack Brown, 1975

Ex. Coll.: artist, early ownership unknown, acquired by the donor’s father in the twentieth century.

Exhibitions:
May-June 1859, studio of the artist, Worcester.
June 1859, Antiquarian Hall, Worcester.
1985, “B. H. Kinney.  Gravestone Carver and Sculptor,”
Worcester Historical Museum.

Publications:
William D. Wallace, B. H. Kinney, Gravestone Carver and Sculptor, (Worcester: Worcester Historical Museum, 1985): 31.

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