Roscius Cicero 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: "Colored crayon by James Sharples when the subject was an infant in 1809 at Small Hopes Plantation, Nansemond Co., VA. The subject was the Grandfather of Armistead, Ramsay and Charles B. Borland and Carrie Borland Burroughs."
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number64.34.2
Not on view
DescriptionPastel chalk on paper drawing of Roscius Cicero Borland (1807-1846), father of Thomas Roscius Borland. In a 1.5" 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.
