Although we are well familiar with the face of Jonathan Fisher through his four self-portraits, his wife, Dolly, remains a cipher. In the Fisher House collection there are two small pictures of this kind and forebearing woman,, a silhouette from the early 1820's, and this daguerreotype probably taken near the end of her life in the late 1840's.
The Jonathan Fisher House in Blue Hill, Maine was built and designed in 1814 by the Reverend Jonathan Fisher. A Harvard graduate, he was a true product of the age of reason, versatile in art, mathematics, cabinetmaking, surveying, writing, farming, and more. In the homestead, now operated as a museum, one can see the life works of this most intriguing figure from the early years of the United States
