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This portrait is a photograph with painted highlights of a bearded man wearing a dark suit. The pose is a bust-length 3/4 view. The frame is a simple gilded wood quarter round with a gold mat. The mat has rounded corners at the top, forming a smooth arch.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
photographs
Picture
Portrait
Oil
Portrait
Unknown
15 1/2 x 18 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Hannah May Burrough Freeman
1941.878A
Title Portrait of Harriet Elizabeth May Fairbrother (1813-1890) Accession Number 1941.878B
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