Miniature watercolor on porcelain, bust length portrait of a man wearing a black suit, bow tie, and spectacles, set behind a gilded plaster mat with an oval opening and mounted in a page of an album.
miniatures (paintings)
porcelain
gilt bronze
Painting
"Supply Clap Thwing. Miniature from a photograph taken in 1876, and / panted by Till of Dresden, Germany" (Paper label)
Thwing, Supply Clap, 1798-1877
3716
Till, Franz (Miniaturist)
Dresden, Germany
5 3/8 x 4 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
1935.405
Saxony (Germany)
Dresden (Dresden district, Saxony, Germany)
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