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- Women in Classical Dress, 1790-1810 - Mehetabel Wingate (1772 - 1846) likely painted these fanciful images as a school girl, before her marriage in 1792. They represent an idealized vision of classical antiquity that was the height of taste in the years following the Revolution, when Americans viewed themselves as the inheritors of the ideals of the ancient world--democracy from Greece and representative government from Rome.

- 1790-1810
- Collections - Artifact
Women in Classical Dress, 1790-1810
Mehetabel Wingate (1772 - 1846) likely painted these fanciful images as a school girl, before her marriage in 1792. They represent an idealized vision of classical antiquity that was the height of taste in the years following the Revolution, when Americans viewed themselves as the inheritors of the ideals of the ancient world--democracy from Greece and representative government from Rome.
- Watercolor Painting, Memorial for George Washington, by Mehetabel Wingate,1800-1810 -

- 1801-1810
- Collections - Artifact
Watercolor Painting, Memorial for George Washington, by Mehetabel Wingate,1800-1810
- Watercolor Painting, Memorial for Mehitable Bradley Wingate, by her daughter Mehetabel Wingate, 1796 -

- July 22, 1796
- Collections - Artifact
Watercolor Painting, Memorial for Mehitable Bradley Wingate, by her daughter Mehetabel Wingate, 1796