Sepia tone engraving with half-length image of a woman facing left, holding her long curly hair in her right hand and touching a covered jar on table top with her other hand; bearded man behind her on our left extends his hand to the oval looking glass on the opposite side; framed under glass; mahogany veneered pine frame with mitred corners; wood backing.
engravings (prints)
ink
paper (fiber product)
Picture
Unidentified Paper
Ink
Vanity
Picture
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Dangvin (Engraver)
France; England
17 x 12.938 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.771
Possibly
Possibly
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