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Portrait of a Woman

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1800-1850

GUSN

GUSN-2885

Description

Head and shoulders profile portrait of a woman with tousled brown hair, wearing a red and blue dress (or red dress and blue shawl). Wooden frame has outer molding painted green, second molding buff with an elongated motif in black and rust red on each side. Inner bead rusty red. These colors complement those in the picture.

Details

Descriptive Terms

portraits
watercolors (paintings)
laid paper
watercolor (paint)
Picture
Portrait
Unidentified Paper
Watercolor
Portrait

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

5 x 4.25 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1351

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