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Lady in a wine red dress
Anne Hall (American, 1792-1863)ca. 1850
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
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.
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- Title: Lady in a wine red dress
- Creator: Anne Hall (American, 1792-1863)
- Date Created: ca. 1850
- Subject Keywords: female portraits
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Artist: Anne Hall (American, 1792-1863)
- 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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