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Miss Clothier
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This portrait shows a young lady standing in front of the Fairmont waterworks building, constructed in 1815 along the Schuylkill River to pump water into Philadelphia’s reservoirs. In 1919, when construction began on the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the architects designed the large neoclassical structure to imitate the temple-like design of the waterworks building close by.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMiss Clothier. ca. 1810-1840. Unidentified. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer. CC0.
