Mrs. Thomas Brewster Coolidge

Chester (Charles) Harding

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Clarissa Baldwin (1791-1841) wears the fashionable costume, with ermine-lined silk taffeta cape and ostrich-plumed hat, that she probably wore in 1827 to the cornerstone ceremony for the monument commemorating the Battle of Bunker Hill. Her brother was the civil engineer for the project.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art