Rufus Morse Newhall

Mrs. Moses B. Russell (Clarissa Peters)

1849 · Watercolor on ivory · The American Wing

This is a memorial portrait of Rufus Morse Newhall, born October 17, 1847, in Lincoln, Massachusetts, to Martha J. and Francis Newhall. He died in 1849, when he was seventeen months and four days old. The locket was designed to hold two images.

Artist

Mrs. Moses B. Russell (Clarissa Peters)

Date

1849

Medium

Watercolor on ivory

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Gift of Alvin and Davida Deutsch, in honor of Kathy Luhrs, 1984