Andrew, Daniel, and Mehitable Wentworth

Andrew, Daniel, and Mehitable Wentworth

Artist Joseph Davis specialized in images that combined profile portraits with the kind of information found on family records. Here he depicts a husband, wife and their young son. While Mehitable Wentworth (1806-1834) holds her new baby, her husband Andrew (1803-1880) grasps objects associated with Freemasonry in his hands, a membership certificate or chart, a square and compasses. The tools may have held a double meaning for Andrew—later census records list his occupation as “Mason.”

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Special Acquisitions Fund, 90.32

Joseph H. Davis (1811-1865), Berwick, Maine

1833