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Miniature watercolor on ivory, bust length portrait of woman facing slightly right wearing a lace shawl and bonnet with pink ribbons, blue background, set behind an ormolu mat with oval opening and within a album page.
miniatures (paintings)
watercolor (paint)
ivory (tooth component)
gilt bronze
Painting
"Elsie Felloes (Davis) Thwing. Wife of Supply Clap Thwing, Miniature / painted by George Harvey in 1830, she was born in / Roxbury, March 11, 1804, and died in Roxbury Sept. 5, 1845. / Her uncle Caleb Fellowes was founder of the Fellowes Athenaeum, in Roxbury" (Paper label)
Thwing, Elsie Fellowes Davis, 1804-1845
Thwing, Supply Clap, 1798-1877
3715
Harvey, George, ca. 1800-1878 (Miniaturist)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, New England
3 1/2 x 3 (HxW) (inches)
1935.404
Massachusetts (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Title Miniature of subjects husband, Supply Clapp Thwing by George Harvey. Accession Number 1935.403
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