Jane Marshall Wood (1833-1841) and her two sisters were three of the subjects of portrait artist Ruth Henshaw Bascom (1772-1848) of Phillipston and Ashby, Massachusetts. Between 1819 and 1848, Mrs. Bascomb traveled around Massachusetts creating more than 1,100 such likenesses. Her silhouettes were life-size, drawn or cut out and mounted, and color was often added. This portrait of Jane Wood and those of her sisters have been rendered in pastels against an outdoor scene. The Wood sisters lived in the Factory Hollow section of Greenfield, Massachusetts.