Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) (The Medallion Portrait)
1805
Artists
Dimensions
47.6 x 47.6 cm (18 3/4 x 18 3/4 in.) framed: 68 x 68.6 x 10.2 cm (26 3/4 x 27 x 4 in.)
Provenance
From the artist to the sitter, Thomas Jefferson, 1805; to daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph; to her daughter Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge; to her son Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; to his daughter Sarah Lawrence Coolidge Newbold; to his son Thomas Jefferson Newbold, Harvard class of 1910, 1917; to his wife, Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Newbold; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1960.
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