Mrs. Israel Thorndike (Sarah Dana)

Mrs. Israel Thorndike (Sarah Dana)

George Lethbridge Saunders

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sarah Dana was the daughter of the Reverend Joseph Dana of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Her husband was a China-trade merchant.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.