Euclid Borland
ArtistAttributed to
Felix Thomas Sharples
(American, 1786-1844)
CultureAmerican
Date1809
MediumChalk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Overall, Frame: 12 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (31.4 x 26.7 cm)
Overall, Frame: 12 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (31.4 x 26.7 cm)
InscribedInformation from the pastel's backing paper: "Pastel by James Sharples. Euclid Borland was Uncle on paternal side of Thomas Roscius Borland. The subject of this protrait was the Great Uncle on paternal side of Armistead, Ramsay, Charles Barney Borland and Carrie Borland Burroughs."
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number64.34.7
Not on view
DescriptionPastel chalk on paper drawing of Euclid Borland.Exhibition History"Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. Published ReferencesFillmore Norfleet, _Suffolk in Virginia, c. 1795-1840: A Record of Lots, Lives, and Likenesses_ (Norfleet, 1974). Dennis R. Anderson, _Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum_, exh. cat., Norfolk, Va., 1975, 50.
