Mary Weld Thomas (c. 1768-1825), c. 1804
| Attributed to Gerrit Schipper (1775-c. 1830)
| pastel on paper
| 8 3/4 x 7 7/8 (22.2 x 19.9)
| Gift of Chauncey Nash, 1951
Ex. Coll.: sitter, to her son Benjamin Franklin Thomas, to his daughter Agnes Park Thomas Olney (1837-1919), to her daughter Agnes Olney Minot (1861-1944), purchased from her estate in 1944 by Maurice Rubin of Colonial House Antiques in Boston, sold by him in 1948 to donor.
Publications:
Benjamin Hill, The Diary of Isaiah Thomas (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1909): opp. 20.
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