Parlor at Mrs. Smith's Boarding House, Broad and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia

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Parlor at Mrs. Smith's Boarding House, Broad and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia

1853

Joseph Shoemaker Russell (American, 1795–1860)

Joseph Shoemaker Russell was a self-taught artist from New Bedford, Massachusetts, active in Philadelphia. His rare watercolors give a vivid glimpse of mid-nineteenth-century life in the city, in this case showing the interior of the boarding house the Russell family moved into in 1853.

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Object Details

Title:

Parlor at Mrs. Smith's Boarding House, Broad and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia

Date:

1853

Artist:

Joseph Shoemaker Russell (American, 1795–1860)

Medium:

Watercolor, opaque watercolor, and pen and black ink over graphite on paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 8 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches (21.9 x 28.6 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

Purchased with funds contributed by the Barra Foundation, Inc., 1994

Accession Number:

1994-85-2

Geography:

Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

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