Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Portrait |
Title |
Jennie Chinn Morton |
Catalog Number |
1917.1 |
Creator |
Hunleigh, William T. |
Date |
ca. 1910 |
Material(s) |
Paint/Canvas |
Dimensions |
H-54.75 W-43.75 D-3.125 inches |
Description |
This is a portrait of Jennie Chinn Morton. She is seated in red arm chair at a desk. She is looking down at the table where she is writing with her right hand. There is a sheet of white paper on the desk with the words "Her Dearest Friends/the Author." She is holding a pink rose in her left hand. She has brown hair and is wearing a dark dress with a white lace collar and insert. |
Notes |
Jennie Chinn Morton was born in Franklin County, Kentucky in 1838. Widowed soon after her marriage to John C. Morton of Hartford, Kentucky in 1860, she turned her time and attention to literary pursuits. Mrs. Morton was a member of the Lyceum, a Frankfort literary society which was the progenitor of the revived Kentucky State Historical Society (now the Kentucky Historical Society). She was elected secretary-treasurer and regent of the society in 1906 and was the founder and original editor of the society's journal, "Register of the Kentucky Historical Society." She held these positions with the society until her death in 1920. William T. Hunleigh was born in 1848 and died in 1916. |
Collection |
Jennie Chinn Morton Collection |
People |
Hunleigh, William T. |
Subjects |
Portrait paintings Portraits Oil paintings Women History Historians Historical societies Secretaries |
Search Terms |
Kentucky Kentucky Historical Society Kentucky Historians Franklin County (Ky.) Frankfort (Ky.) |
Physical Holder |
Kentucky Historical Society - KHS |