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Bust-length portrait of Mary Sparrow with cleft chin wearing a black dress with white lace collar facing left. Sitter has a rectangular tortoiseshell haircomb in her hair and is wearing a square filigree earring, three narrow gold chains, and a decorative belt buckle. Twin sister Elizabeth Sparrow is 1966.159.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
paper (fiber product)
oil pastels
Picture
Portrait
Pastel
Portrait
Sparrow, Mary, 1795-1883
Doyle, William M.S., 1769-1828 (Artist)
Boston, MA, USA
26 5/8 x 20 1/2 x 1 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Nina Fletcher Little
1966.460
Massachusetts (United States)
Probably
Title Portrait of Elizabeth Sparrow Accession Number 1966.459
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