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Hollow cut silhouette of Anna Woodbury set over black silk facing left, chain of blonde hair and paper heart set next to silhouette, mounted in a brass spandrel frame with foliate and bead borders and rosettes in corners.
silhouettes
glass (material)
brass (alloy)
Silhouette
"Anna Woodbury / Bow, N.H. / Age 16. (Pencil)
Woodbury, Anna, 1817
3548
Possibly Howard, Everet (Artist)
Bow, New Hampshire
5 1/4 x 4 3/8 x 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of William Sumner Appleton
1925.641
ca. 1833 (b. 1817, aged 16 at time of portrait)
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