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1800-1815
GUSN-6670
Half-length portrait of a woman in white dress with red shawl, with curly brown hair.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
art (fine art)
Picture
Portrait
Oil
Pastel
Watercolor
Painted
Angel
Classical Figure
Flute
Art
Portrait
Pen script on reverse of frame, upper left: ""Mrs. Andrews Norton/ (Catherine Eliot)"" To right of this is typed label ""Museum of Fine Arts/ Port. of a Woman/by Frothingham/ Miss Elizabeth Norton"".
Norton, Catherine Eliot
Frothingham (Maker)
Frothingham, James, 1786-1864 (Maker)
Jones, P. Burne (Maker)
35.5 x 30.5 x 3 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Susan Norton
1990.105
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