"The Letter of the Law"

inscription:

.01: Verso: wetstamp: "FRANCES and MARY ALLEN/ DEERFIELD, MASS./ All Rights Reserved"; graphite: "The Letter of the Law/ 75" (MEA) .02: verso, graphite, "The Letter of the Law" [illegible]/ .75/ .25"; "The Rev. Mr. Spooner'; wet stamp, "FRANCES and MARY ALLEN,/ DEERFIELD, MASS,/ All Rights Reserved."

description:

Interior portrait of man in costume with hand on open book, looking at camera.

references:

Listed in sisters' catalog of 1920.

keywords:

Clergy
Clothing, Fashion, Costume
Colonial Revival
Costumes
Pageant, Theatricals
Puritans
Religion