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Large, rectangular format picture of a woman, shown half-length, facing left. She is wearing a close-fitting cap with a ribbon tied under her chin. She has gray eyes, wears a black dress with elbow sleeves that have a cuff and ruffle and kerchief. She holds a white fabric that suggests sewing. On a gray background and in a gold frame that appears to be a liner for a larger frame.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
canvas
paper (fiber product)
oil pastels
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
women (female humans)
Picture
Portrait
Pastel
Unidentified Paper
Coated Canvas
Pine
Woman
Portrait
In pencil in the upper center of the canvas backing reverse is: Done - September the 4th 1780. As per NFL ""in apparently contemporary pencil"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
30 x 22 x 1 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.510.2
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