Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 74.47
Date:
1860
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 115.
Summary:
Portrait of Miss Josephine Blodgett as Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, sitting next to a globe and holding a pointer in her right hand. She wears an azure blue robe fastened with a crescent, and on her head she wears a circlet of stars.