Mrs. Thomas Lindall Winthrop.(Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple.) [engraving]

Mrs. Thomas Lindall Winthrop.(Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple.) [engraving]

New York D. Appleton & Co. [1854]

1 print ; 26 x 18 cm. on sheet 29 x 21 cm.

P&E L1994.969.23m

Three-quarter length, standing, to the right. She is wearing a shawl over her head and her left arm is resting on a railing. Her right hand is covered by the shawl but appears to be resting on a cane.
Below the title it reads: "From an original picture by Gilbert Stuart in possession of the Honorable Robert C. Winthrop."
Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple was the daughter of Sir John Temple (British Consul General) and Lady Temple, who was raised by Governor Bowdoin of Massachusetts and adopted as his daughter. Lady Temple was greatly admired by Franklin and Lafayette. The Temple's daughter Elizabeth married Thomas L. Winthrop and was the mother of Robert C. Winthrop.
Frontis page from Griswold, "The Republican court, or American society in the days of Washington, Supplemental chapter on society in Philadelphia while that city was the capital of the republic, No. 23"
Digitized image available.

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