A sepia-tone portrait of a woman in a bonnet and a shawl, at waist length view. It is heightened with a grisaille wash and is in a black molded oval frame.
portraits
photographs
grisaille
ink
painting (coating)
paper (fiber product)
pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
photographs
busts (figures)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
men (male humans)
portraits
women (female humans)
Picture
Portrait
Woman
Portrait
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
12.5 x 10.75 x 1 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.685.1
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