Painting [realia] : Taft-Sinton House--1820, Cincinnati, Ohio. 1949.

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Painting [realia] : Taft-Sinton House--1820, Cincinnati, Ohio. 1949.

Watercolor painting on paper shows the Taft-Sinton House in Cincinnati, Ohio. The white house has oculus windows and a large front portico and stair entrance. There are green shutters and trees in the front. The painting is under glass in a cherry wood frame with a gold liner. In the lower right corner is the title and artist's signature: "Taft-Sinton House--1820, Cincinnati, Ohio - Ralph Fanning, Mar. 31, '49"

1 item : white, blue, green ; 72.5 cm high, 87.5 cm wide, 2.0 cm long.

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Fanning, Ralph, b. 1889,

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This Federal house in the Palladian style was begun about 1820 for Martin Baum (1765-1831), one of Cincinnati's early merchants. Art patron and abolitionist Nicholas Longworth (1782-1863) lived there for more than thirty years. Iron magnate David Sinton (1808-1900), the subsequent owner, bequeathed the house to his daughter Anna Sinton Taft (1852 circa-1931). She and her husband Charles Phelps Taft (1843-1929), older half-brother of President William Howard Taft (1857-1930), assembl...

Taft Museum of Art

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