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Half-length portrait of Ruth Lummus Buffum with her hair parted in the middle and smoothed over her ears. She wears black dress with lace collar pinned at the center with a rectangular agate brooch (1961.173C)
portraits
paintings (visual works)
canvas
oil paint (paint)
Picture
Portrait
Oil
Coated Canvas
Portrait
Buffum, Ruth Lummus
Osgood, Charles, 1809-1890 (Artist)
Salem, MA, USA
38.25 x 33.25 x 2.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Alice and Emil Ahlborn
1961.173B
Massachusetts (United States)
Probably
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