Waist-length, three-quarter to right portrait of a lady with smooth black hair, wearing a wine-red velvet dress with low cut lace yoke. This miniature reputedly was taken from the pocket of a dead officer on a Southern battlefield of the Civil War.
Provenance: Herbert Lawton collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
Object Type: miniatures (paintings)
Medium: watercolor on ivory
Dimensions: H excluding frame: 3 1/2 x W: 2 3/4 in. (8.89 x 6.99 cm); Framed H: 6 1/4 x W: 5 1/4 in. (15.88 x 13.34 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963
Classification: Miniatures
Accession Number: 38.464
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