[INFANT CHILD OF FRANCIS HOPKINSON, THE SIGNER]
A drawing in crayon by the child’s father. The child carries a coral and bells.
1763. Died in 1800, aged forty. Married John Wilkes of New York. White frock and blue scarf.
Lady Temple and Governor James Bowdoin in childhood. The artist of this pleasing portrait is unknown. I think it was painted by Blackburn. It is now in the Walker Art Gallery, at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me.
Aged twelve years, daughter of Colonel James Robinson, Salem, Mass. Painted by M. Corné in 1808. Owned by the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.
These are knitted upon finest wire needles, of linen thread, which had been spun, and the flax raised and prepared by the knitter.