Henrietta Maria Earle: The Portrait of a Lady—Francis Scott Key's Poem for his Friend, William Hemsley, Esq.— A Tribute to Mary Davidson Callahan Pippin
/When twenty-year-old Henrietta Maria Hemsley (1779-1821) sat for her miniature portrait in 1799, she could not have imagined its journey through time. Nor could she have foreseen that Clover Fields, her childhood home, would be preserved to reflect the year 1784, the time when she was just five years old. Yet, this is the remarkable course history has taken. Now, after more than two centuries away, Henrietta Maria’s miniature portrait has finally returned to Clover Fields, coming full circle.
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