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Maker(s):Johnson, Eastman
Culture:American (1824-1906)
Title:Edwina Booth (1861–1938)
Date Made:1885
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on canvas mounted to aluminum
Measurements:canvas: 27 1/8 x 22 1/8 in.; 68.8975 x 56.1975 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1967.23
Credit Line:Museum Purchase
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
1967-23.jpg

Description:
portrait; female

Label Text:
Johnson depicts Edwina Booth—the daughter of the celebrated Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth (1833–1893) and the niece of President Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865)—on the eve of her marriage to the banker Ignatius R. Grossman (later spelled Crossman)

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