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Description
By local legend this is a portrait of Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood (1759-1855), also known as Madame Wood, of Kennebunk. Madame Wood was Maine's first fiction writer. This portrait was most likely painted after she had settled in Kennebunk and lived with her granddaughter.
Sally Wood (1759-1855) published the first books of fiction in the District of Maine. She was born in York.
About This Item
- Title: Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood, ca. 1820
- Creation Date: circa 1820
- Subject Date: circa 1820
- Location: Kennebunk, York County, ME
- Media: Paint on wood panel
- Dimensions: 84 cm x 63 cm
- Local Code: 2004.064
- Object Type: Image
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- Authors--United States--Maine
- Paintings
- Portraits
- Women authors
- Wood, Sally Sayward Barrell Keating, 1759-1855--Portraits
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