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A cut-out bust length profile of a woman in white paper, backed with black silk faille, in it's original black painted frame. It has a reverse painted glass mat and black with silver highlights.
silhouettes
verre églomisé
paper (fiber product)
silk (textile)
faille
figure- and animal-derived motifs
women (female humans)
Woman
Silhouette
In pencil on the back is: AA Little/Mary (illeg.) K. Little. [The second name is harder to read- may not be Mary.]
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Adeline Augusta Little
Unknown
5.25 x 4.75 x 1 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.39
Massachusetts (United States)
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