Description:
Carte de visite with a photograph believed to be Henrietta Field (1832-1914), the only child of the artist, Erastus Salisbury Field (1805-1900) and Phoebe Gilmur (d.1859) who married in 1831. The back is printed with "COFFRIN/ Photographer,/ CLAREMONT,/ N. H."; and inscribed in in "Henrietta Field/ Erastus S. Field's/ daugther - ?" The carte de visite was a gift of Parker Dole Hubbard (1919-1994) who was the son of George Caleb Hubbard (b.1878) and Florence Graves Hubbard, grandson of Parker Dole Hubbard (1825-1895) and Elizabeth Newton Hubbard (1842-1915), great-grandson of Ashley Hubbard (1792-1861) and Betsey Dole Hubbard (1794-1862), and great-great grandson of Caleb Hubbard (1754-1850) and Lucretia Ashley Hubbard (1767-1853) of the Plumtrees section of Sunderland, Mass. The nephew of Lucretia Ashley Hubbard and Caleb Hubbard, Field and his family stayed with the Hubbard family in Plumtress from 1836, off and on during his career. There are portraits of Henrietta Field in the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass., one of her sitting at a piano, circa 1860, and an ambrotype hand-colored in oils, circa 1855.
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