Lauren Rogers Library and Museum of Art P.O. Box 1108, Fifth Avenue at 7th Street Laurel Mississippi 39440
Date:
Ca. 1835-1840
Notes:
Speakes, Vera Jacobs, "Mississippi Portraiture," Laurel, MS: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Mississippi and the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 1987, pg. 98.
Summary:
Portrait of Hannah Cornelia Eager seated with her body turned slightly to the left, her gaze directed off to the left, and her hands folded in her lap. She wears a large ruffled bonnet trimmed in lace, and a dark dress with a pleated white collar. In the background drapery is pulled back to reveal a landscape of the countryside.
