Word: georgiana
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...antient State. And as we cannot have too many of so good a Race, I hope you and Madame de la Fayette will go thro' the Thirteen . . . While you are proceeding, I hope our States will some of them new-name themselves. Miss Virginia, Miss Carolina, and Miss Georgiana will sound prettily enough; but Massachusetts and Connecticut, are too harsh even for the Boys, unless they were to be Savages...
...lady in the picture had good looks and a title: Lady Georgiana Gordon. Moreover, she was by the respected hand of 18th Century British Portraitist John Hoppner. But she was in poor condition, her complexion sallowed by a thick coat of yellow varnish. When the Brooklyn Museum got her as a gift in 1934, officials dismissed Lady Georgiana as an inferior Hoppner, sent her to the basement. Recently, Brooklyn assigned Restorer Sheldon Keck to give her a thorough face lifting...
...given the mousy lady her later look? Most probably, says Keck, some unknown craftsman of 50 years ago or so who wanted to pretty her up for prospective buyers. In reworking the face, the painter might even have tried for a faithful likeness of Lady Georgiana Gordon: the top picture bore some resemblance to a contemporary drawing of her. But who was the restored lady? Brooklyn hasn't solved that problem...
Committee members include Dean Kerby-Miller, chairman; professors John D. Bush, Kirtley F. Mather, Keyes D. Metcalfe, University librarian, and Miss Georgiana Hinkley, former Radcliffe librarian--a position now held by Miss Ruth Porritt...
...GEORGIANA M. SHAFFER