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.
portraits
watercolors (paintings)
laid paper
watercolor (paint)
Picture
Portrait
Unidentified Paper
Watercolor
Portrait
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 x 4.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1351
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