Harriott Godwin 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 back of this pastel's backing paper: "This pastel by James Sharples was done at Stockley 1809. Thomas R. Borland, her grandson. The subject of this portrait was the great Grandmother of Armistead, Ramsay and Charles Barney Borland and Carrie Borland Burroughs."
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number64.34.3
Not on view
DescriptionPastel chalk on paper drawing of Harriott Godwin Borland (1787-1812), wife of Dr. Thomas Wood Borland and daughter of Jeremiah Godwin and Sally Wilkinson, his wife, who was born at Stockley Plantation or Point, Nansemond Co., VA, Monday, September 17, 1787, and died January 16, 1812. In a simple gold frame.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.
