FRAME WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF MARJORIE MERRIWEATHER POST
Creator(s): Yousuf Karsh (Photographer)
On view in: Adam Dressing Room
About this object
This black and white copy photograph shows Marjorie Merriweather Post in about 1945 wearing a velvet gown with a taffeta or satin underskirt, seated on a sofa in the sun room at Tregaron. Her left arm is resting on the back of the sofa; behind her on that side is a built-in vitrine containing Russian porcelain. Behind her to the right is a tapestry screen. She is wearing a fourn strand pearl necklace, drop earrings that contain diamonds, and a sapphire brooch at the center of the gown's sweetheart neckline.
- Object name:
- FRAME WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF MARJORIE MERRIWEATHER POST
- Made from:
- Wood -- paper
- Made in:
- Washington, USA
- Date made:
- ca. 1945
- Size:
- 24.5 x 19.1 cm (9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 34.106
- Signature marks:
- signature Karsh lower left corner of photograph Handwritten in script inscription Duplicate / See Neg # / A1186 back of photograph handwritten in pencil inscription 33648 / 2 5/3/60 / JR lower right corner of backing board handwritten in pencil
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973