Skip to main content
Museum purchase. 2006.74.3. © 2008 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Wealthy Amanda Badcock Curtis
Museum purchase. 2006.74.3. © 2008 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Wealthy Amanda Badcock Curtis

SubjectPortrait of Wealthy Amanda Badcock American, 1824 - 1897
Dateabout 1860
MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on carte-de-visite
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 1 1/4 x 3/4in. (3.2 x 1.9cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 5/8 x 2in. (9.2 x 5.1cm)
Mount (height x width): 3 15/16 x 2 7/16in. (10 x 6.2cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionBust-length portrait of a young woman with her head turned slightly to the left. Her hair is parted in the center and swept back, possibly in a snood. She wears a dress with a white collar.
Object number2006.74.3
InscribedOn verso, in pencil, upper margin, "Wealthy A. Curtis"; lower right, in pencil, accession number
On View
Not on view
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2006.74.2  Photograph by David Stansbury.  © 2009 The Con…
Wealthy Amanda Badcock
about 1835-1836
Gift of Mrs. Sally Pullman, 2002.10.2, The Connecticut Historical Society.
Daniel Jones
about 1875
Gift of the estate of Emma L. Burdett, 1976.142.0, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, N…
Lucy Stockbridge Burdett
1868-1878
Mary Augusta Holmes
Barcalow
1860-1869
Museum purchase, 1983.61.0  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.
S. H. Waite
1864
Gift of Frances Hoxie, 2008.23.0  © 2008 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Unknown
about 1870
Gift of John Heckman, 2003.170.10  © 2011 The Connecticut Historical Society.
William A. Beers
late 19th century
Fannie Buell Gilman
Willimantic Gallery of Art
1871-1876
Unidentified Baby, Age 9 Months
Butler family
1869-1889