Very small, rectangular form showing a woman (one of a pair, other is a man). The woman has her hair in long curls at her shoulders. Her head is turned to the side, looking to the left; and a blue scarf around her neck. The picture has a filligree pewter frame with a crown at the top. There is no glass and it is held in by pewter brads on the back of the frame.
miniatures (paintings)
watercolors (paintings)
filigree enameling
ink
painting (coating)
paper (fiber product)
pewter (tin alloy)
watercolor (paint)
tin (metal)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
women (female humans)
Pewter
Filigree
Unidentified Paper
Ink
Watercolor
Painted
Woman
PICTURE, MINIATURE
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4.5 x 2.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1406.2
Massachusetts (United States)
Title Watercolor Accession Number 1991.1406.1
Title Accession Number
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