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Mourning Locket
Ezra Amesc. 1794
Albany Institute of History & Art
Albany, United States
Details
- Title: Mourning Locket
- Creator: Possibly Ezra Ames (1768-1836)
- Creator Lifespan: 1768 - 1836
- Date: c. 1794
- Location: United States
- Physical Dimensions: w2.13 x h3 in (Complete)
- Type: Paintings
- Rights: Gift of Dorothy Merle Smith (Mrs. David McAlpin Pyle)
- External Link: http://www.albanyinstitute.org/home.html
- Medium: Watercolor on ivory, human hair, gold
- Inscription: Inscribed on monument: J.J.L.; inscribed on reverse of locket: JJL/Jacob Ja Lansing Died 21 June 1794 aged 41 Yrs.
- Additional Comments: The locket memorializes Jacob Ja. Lansing (1753–1794), a public servant in Albany. He was the husband of Anna Quackenbush (born 1765) and the son of the Albany silversmith Jacob Jacobse Lansing and Maritje Egberts.
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