ID: 700008574 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008574	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Sarah Anne Allen (miniature (painting); formerly attributed to Clarissa Peters Russell (American, 18...; about 1842; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, ...; 36.351)

Titles:

Sarah Anne Allen (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,N)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

miniature (painting) [300033936] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by form>)

Classifications:

miniatures (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1842

Creator Display:

formerly attributed to Clarissa Peters Russell (American, 1809–1854) [preferred,VP]

miniaturist Russell, Clarissa Peters (American miniaturist, 1809-1854) Qualifier: formerly attributed to [500372708]

Locations:

Current: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) [500305147] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 36.351

Credit Line: Gift of Miss Emily L. Clark

Display Materials: Watercolor on ivory

	watercolor (paint) [300015045]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	ivory (material) [300011857]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, combination inorganic/organic material, combination inorganic/organic animal material, <bone and bone components materials>, bone (material), <bone by form as material>, <tooth and tooth components as materials>, <tooth components as material>, dentin (material))

Dimensions: 6.03 x 4.76 cm (2 3/8 x 1 7/8 in.)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Allen, Sarah Anne (American, born ca. 1838) [500372709]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	single-sitter portrait [300404138]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

Provenance: The artist; descended in family to Emily L. Clark, the sitter's daughter; to MFA, 1936, gift of Emily L. Clark.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Sarah Anne Allen	........ [VP]
	........ National Museum of African Art [online] (1999-)

Subject: ....... [VP]