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Rectangular format; portrait of a woman, Mrs. William Noyes; 1/2 length; depicts woman wearing a black dress with a small white collar, silver foil pin and close-fitting shirred ribbon cap with strings; holding book in left hand; original black frame and glass; watercolor on paper.
portraits
ink
paper (fiber product)
watercolor (paint)
portraits
figure- and animal-derived motifs
women (female humans)
Unidentified Paper
Watercolor
Ink
Gouache
Painted
Portrait
Woman
Painting
Written in blue ink on a jelly label on the center of the picture backing: Mrs./Wm. Noyes,/Newbport
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Mrs. William Noyes
Unknown
4 5/8 x 3 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1350.2
Massachusetts (United States)
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