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Dorothy Quincy [Mrs. Edward Jackson]
![Dorothy Quincy [Mrs. Edward Jackson] Portrait, oil on canvas](/database/images/1637dorothyquincy_trans_ref.jpg "Dorothy Quincy [Mrs. Edward Jackson] Portrait, oil on canvas")
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[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]
Physician and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes was so taken with this portrait of his great-grandmother as "a young girl in antique costume, which made her look at first sight almost like a grown woman," that he wrote a poem about it entitled, "Dorothy Q: A Family Portrait."