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Portrait of Elizabeth Morris Canby [later, Mrs. Charles Grubb Rumford](1848-1936) with her mother, Elizabeth Clifford Morris Canby (Mrs. Samuel Canby)(1813-1892)
Portrait of Elizabeth Morris Canby [later, Mrs. Charles Grubb Rumford](1848-1936) with her mother, Elizabeth Clifford Morris Canby (Mrs. Samuel Canby)(1813-1892)

Portrait of Elizabeth Morris Canby [later, Mrs. Charles Grubb Rumford](1848-1936) with her mother, Elizabeth Clifford Morris Canby (Mrs. Samuel Canby)(1813-1892)

Date1857-1859 (probably)
OriginAmerica, Delaware or Pennsylvania (probably)
MediumAmbrotype in a velvet-lined, leather-covered case having brass fittings
DimensionsOverall (Closed case exterior): 3 5/8 x 3 1/4 x 11/16in. (9.2 x 8.3 x 1.7cm)
Credit LineGift of Beatrix T. Rumford
Object number2009-165
DescriptionA sixth-plate ambrotype image of a young girl standing beside an older, seated, bonneted woman. The two are shown to just below their waists. The image is enclosed in a leather-covered, velvet-lined case having brass fittings. The case cover is detached.
MarkingsA typed label adhered to the case's velvet liner reads: "E. M. Canby/L. M. Canby".
ProvenanceDescended in the family of the subject to CWF's donor. The exact line of descent is undocumented but may have been: from the elder subject to the younger; to her son, Samuel Canby Rumford (1876-1950); to his son, Lewis Rumford II (d. 1997); to his daughter, Beatrix Tyson Rumford, who was CWF's donor.