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A miniature portrait of Jenny Lind, done at half length, with the subject turned at 3/4 angle to the viewer. She wears a burgundy dress with black trim. She wears a chain necklace with a large pendant and a pair of cuff bracelets.
miniatures (paintings)
paper (fiber product)
watercolor (paint)
Unidentified Paper
Watercolor
Painting
Lind, Jenny
Jackson, E. Nevill
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Dempsey, J. (Maker)
8.375 x 5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.1624
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