Portrait bust of Emily Marshall Otis
Title:
Portrait bust of Emily Marshall Otis
Subject:
Description:
Photograph and caption from an article published in "The Magazine Antiques", June 1973, by Walter Muir Whitehill, director and librarian emeritus: "Portrait busts in the library of the Boston Athenaeum".
The bust of Emily Marshall was carved from a death mask in Florence in 1839 by Horatio Greenough and given to the Athenaeum in 1956 by her great-grandson, Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison.
The bust of Emily Marshall was carved from a death mask in Florence in 1839 by Horatio Greenough and given to the Athenaeum in 1956 by her great-grandson, Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison.
Creator:
Walter Muir Whitehill
Date:
1973
Medium:
Condition:
good
Collection:
Object ID:
GEN 0802
Location:
General Collection Box 25
Related to
Citation
Walter Muir Whitehill, “Portrait bust of Emily Marshall Otis,” Northeast Harbor Library, accessed April 28, 2024, https://nehl.digitalarchive.us/items/show/6225.Item 7136