A brown-tone, three-fourth length, portrait of a seated young woman holding a fan. She wears a sheer white dress with beading or embroidery and a low square neckline. The background is brown mated with cream colored cardboard. In a simple flat and narrow mahogany frame.
portraits
photomechanical prints
prints (visual works)
relief halftone (process)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
women (female humans)
Woman
Print, Photographic
Embossed on the the mat in the center of the lower margin is: Marson/East Orange N.J.
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Miss Margaret Bradley Little
Possibly Meeson (Photographer)
East Orange, NJ, USA
10.75 x 7.75 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.669
New Jersey (United States)
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