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Portrait of a Girl

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1860-1880

GUSN

GUSN-18847

Description

Colored engraving of a young girl in a straw hat with a blue bow and wearing a blue/green dress. The girl has brown hair and brown eyes and holds a doll in a red dress with her right hand and hugs a dog with her left hand. Frame: 2 in. black.

Details

Descriptive Terms

prints (visual works)
coloring
engraving (printing process)
paper (fiber product)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
dog (animal)
girls
Picture
Portrait
Unidentified Paper
Stipple Engraved
Hand Colored
Girl
Dog
Portrait

Inscription

Written on the back of the frame are these fragments: ""R.H. Tuc/ Wiscas/ Care/ J Davis & Son/ 904 Comm--""

Associated Building

Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

18.375 x 15.125 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker

Accession Number

1998.1482

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