Mary R. Whitlock

Aramenta Dianthe Vail

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mary R. Whitlock (1839-1915) was the daughter of Rebecca Smith Fanshaw and William Schenck Whitlock and the granddaughter of Daniel Fanshaw (1788-1860), a respected printer. Based on a later inscription, the sitter had been identified erroneously as Rebecca Fanshaw.

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