[Joanette Clark Benjamin, Frances Benjamin Johnston's maternal grandmother, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] / C. Adele Fussell(?) 1880. – Antique Photo Print
![[Joanette Clark Benjamin, Frances Benjamin Johnston's maternal grandmother, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] / C. Adele Fussell(?) 1880., 1880 — historic image](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/50/50dd9da91ba6-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic image of [Joanette Clark Benjamin, Frances Benjamin Johnston's maternal grandmother, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] / C. Adele Fussell(?) 1880. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Joanette Clark Benjamin, Frances Benjamin Johnston's maternal grandmother, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] / C. Adele Fussell(?) 1880.
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Joanette Clark Benjamin, the maternal grandmother of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, sits for this head-and-shoulders watercolor, turned slightly to the left. The record attributes the work to C. Adele Fussell, though the question mark signals that the attribution is uncertain, and it is dated 1880, the same year the record gives for Benjamin's death. The painting belongs to the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress. Family portraits like this one, kept within a relative's circle rather than made for public display, give a more personal view of nineteenth-century family life than formal studio work often does.
| Created / published | 1880 |
|---|---|
| Genre | Portrait paintings 1880.Watercolors 1880.Paintings 1880. |
| Notes | Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Benjamin, Joanette Clark,--1814 or 1815-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,140 × 1,450 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218873 |
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