#sarah goodridge

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Beauty Revealed (self-portrait), 1828 - Sarah Goodridge (American,1788-1853)

[undead-knick-knack]

Laudna showing off her Delilah crystal be like 😂

I want to emphasize that I used a painting called Beauty Revealed by Sarah Goodridge, and that I didn't crop it. Girl did a whole-ass portrait of her ta-tas and nothing more about 200years ago 😂

[anachronous-cetacea]

Just some random antebellum furry doodle

John Calhoun - grey-headed flying fox

John Randolph - beagle

Sam Houston - raven

Sarah Polk - cackling goose

Martin Van Buren - red fox

Sarah Goodridge - secretary bird

[stigmatam4rtyr]

Beauty Revealed (1828, watercolour on ivory) | Sarah Goodridge

[psikonauti]

Sarah Goodridge (American,1788-1853)

Beauty Revealed (self-portrait), 1828

[thevisualvamp]

[moradadabeleza]

Sarah Goodridge

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Sarah Goodridge, Beauty Revealed, 1828, watercolor on ivory (Met Museum of Art, NYC)

According to Webster family tradition, this is a self-portrait the artist painted for American statesman Daniel Webster.

[jnjo]

Sarah Goodridge, Beauty Revealed 1828

[glass-chalice]

Sarah Goodridge’s Beauty Revealed, 1828

These pale breasts encircled by a swirl of cloth, painted on a thin plate of ivory 2.6 inches high and 3.1 inches long, belonged to the woman who painted them: an accomplished miniaturist named Sarah Goodridge (b. 1788). Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Goodridge sent this particular miniature (enclosed in a leather case that could be closed with two clasps) to the recently widowed United States senator Daniel Webster in 1828.

[antebellumite]

THE FUCKING REDDIT THREAD COMMENTS

[jdunlevy]

“Whether Webster had any sexual involvement with [Goodridge] cannot be proved one way or the other,’ Webster’s biographer Robert Remini says cautiously, before adding: ‘although the fact that she sent him a self-portrait with her breasts exposed raises suspicions.’ ¶ But Beauty Revealed is not a ‘self-portrait with the [Goodridge’s] breasts exposed’; it’s a self-portrait exclusively of her breasts.

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

In 1828 Sarah Goodridge painted this self-portrait of her breasts to send to her lover. 

[abwwia]

Sarah Goodridge, Self Portrait, ca. 1825, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund 1942.11.6.

Sarah Goodridge ( #bornonthisday February 5, 1788 – December 28, 1853; also referred to as Sarah Goodrich) was an American painter who specialized in portrait miniatures. She was the older sister of Elizabeth Goodridge, also an American miniaturist. Via Wikipedia

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[village-skeptic]

This sent me down a rabbit hole, in which I learned that Sarah Goodridge painted this miniature, generally understood to be a self-portrait, for none other than Daniel Webster. Yes, famous nineteenth-century statesman Daniel Webster. Daniel Webster from "The Devil and Daniel Webster" Daniel Webster.

An absolutely fascinating and very readable exploration of Sarah Goodridge, her career, and this and other self-portraits, written by historian Chris Packard, is here: "Self-Fashioning in Sarah Goodridge’s Self-Portraits."

Sarah Goodridge, Beauty Revealed, 1828.

[thevisualvamp]

Life imitates art - Jean Francois Caudry after Sarah Goodridge