Description
1 painting : watercolor on ivory, in gold case. | Gold-cased oval portrait miniature, given to Catherine "Kitty" Floyd, presented as a pin, in velvet-lined container.
Image Licence
No known restrictions on publication.
Image Credit
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-4097
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Country
USA
Tags
Category
People & Society
TWW Comment
James Madison stayed at Mary House's Boarding House while serving his first term in the Continental Congress, from March 1780-fall of 1783. While there he met and fell in love with Catherine "Kitty" Floyd, and the pair exchanged portrait miniatures by Charles Willson Peale.
