Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Portrait |
Title |
"Eliza Hoskins Farris" |
Catalog Number |
1997.52.3 |
Creator |
Curry, James |
Maker |
Curry, James |
Date |
ca. 1920 |
Material(s) |
Paint/Paper |
Dimensions |
H-7.75 W-5.5 inches |
Description |
This is a watercolor portrait of Eliza H. Farris at age 82. It is a bust image of a woman in a dark blue dress with white neckpiece. She's wearing oval wire frame spectacles slid down to middle of her nose, light gray eyes peek over. The subject looks to the left. She wears a ruffled lace cap and has gray hair in finger curls. |
Notes |
Eliza Hoskins Farris (c. 1821-1912), the daughter of William Hoskins of lower Garrard County. Camp Dick Robinson was located immediately across the road from her family home. Newspaper accounts relate that the Hoskins' home became a makeshift hospital for ill federal soldiers. Eliza Hoskins spent the Civil War nursing in her own home and local hospitals. Around 1866, she married James Farris, a confederate veteran. James Curry was an amateur Lexington watercolorist. He painted this from a 1903 newspaper photograph, probably for the donor's half sister, Mary Owsley, a neighbor of Curry's on North Broadway in Lexington. Farris spent her final years in the home of Owlsey's mother in Lancaster. |
Collection |
Dorothy Pinson Collection |
People |
Hoskins, Eliza Farris Curry, James |
Subjects |
Watercolor drawings Watercolor paintings Watercolors Nurses Nursing Civil wars |
Search Terms |
Garrard County (Ky.) Kentucky |
Physical Holder |
Kentucky Historical Society - KHS |