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Three-quarter turned waist-length view of Ralph May, about 40 years old; brown hair with shaggy long sideburns, hazel eyes; white ruffled shirt with dark overcoat; plain olive greenish background; molded gilded frame has gessoed alternating wreath and leaf motif on edges, leaf and berry motif on inner rim.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
canvas
oil paint (paint)
Picture
Portrait
Oil
Coated Canvas
Portrait
May, Ralph, 1780-1819
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
33.75 x 28.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.599
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