Oil painting of a woman holding doves, framed in a golden wooden frame with applied plaster details. The woman is wearing a red and blue dress with white trim and a straw hat with fiber trim. She is shown sitting from the waist up, left shoulder forward and exposed. She holds the body of a bird in her left hand and its wing in her right hand. Another bird sits nearby. Frame is wooden, painted gold. It has an interior trim pattern as well as floral and leaf decorations at the corners.
oil paintings (visual works)
canvas
wood (plant material)
oil paint (paint)
Painting
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P230
Unknown
22 14/16 x 18 9/16 x 1 15/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.653
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