Mrs. Joseph Green (Elizabeth Cross)
John Singleton Copley
(American, 1738–1815)
about 1767
Medium/TechniquePastel on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions60.01 x 45.4 cm (23 5/8 x 17 7/8 in.)
Credit LineJulia Knight Fox Fund
Accession number25.51
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Not on viewClassificationsPastels
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Like Elizabeth Ross (39.248), Elizabeth Green wears a loose, fur-trimmed robe in the Turkish fashion. The Greens, sympathetic to the Crown, left Boston for London in 1775.
InscriptionsCenter left: JSC [monogram]ProvenanceThe artist; the sitter; to Gideon Snow, Boston, the sitter's nephew; to Rev. Theodore W. Snow, his son; to Miss H. Elizabeth Snow, Pomfret, Conn., his daughter; to MFA, 1925, purchased for $1,500.
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