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Bust-length portrait of a woman in a black dress with white lace collar facing right. Sitter has a rectangular tortoisehell haircomb in her hair and is wearing a square gold earring, three narrow gold chains, and a decorative belt buckle. Twin sister, Mary Sparrow, is 1966.460.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
paper (fiber product)
oil pastels
Picture
Portrait
Pastel
Portrait
Sparrow, Eliza, 1797-1829
Doyle, William M.S., 1769-1828 (Artist)
Boston, MA, USA
26 1/2 x 20 5/8 x 1 7/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Nina Fletcher Little
1966.459
Massachusetts (United States)
Probably
Title Portrait of Mary Sparrow Accession Number 1966.460
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