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Portrait of Sarah Baker Hester
Accession # 30.923
Artist William Ordway Partridge
Title Portrait of Sarah Baker Hester
Date 1905
Medium Marble
Dimensions 25 1/2 x 21 x 12 1/2 in. (64.8 x 53.3 x 31.8 cm)
Signed Inscribed underneath proper left shoulder: "Partridge / 1905"
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Charles R. Baker
Location Visible Storage: Case 33, Shelf A (Sculpture)
Description Portrait bust of woman with head turned slightly to right; hair gathered in a bun; dress gathered around her shoulders with ribbon tied in large bow to right of center; roses carved on front of simple square pedestal base. Condition: Good; yellow-orange accretion located in several areas of hair, dress, and roses (intentional coloring?).