Contributed by NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Description
Mary King Longfellow (1852-1945) sketched her younger sister, Lucia Longfellow, wearing their grandmother Zilpah's silk dress, seated in an eighteenth-century chair in the Wadsworth Longfellow House.
Mary and Lucia were daughters of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, brother of the poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
About This Item
- Title: Lucia Longfellow in grandmother's dress, 1883
- Creator: Mary King Longfellow
- Creation Date: 1883-07-04
- Subject Date: 1883-07-04
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Watercolor on paper
- Local Code: Long 18701
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Barrett, Lucia Wadsworth Longfellow, 1859-1940
- Paintings
- Drawings
- Children's art
- Longfellow family
- Longfellow, Mary King, 1852-1945
- Longfellow, Zilpah Wadsworth, 1778-1851
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Family
People
- Barrett, Lucia Wadsworth Longfellow
- Longfellow, Lucia Wadsworth
- Longfellow, Mary King
- Longfellow, Zilpah Wadsworth
For more information about this item, contact:
NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 876-4491
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