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Personification of America

Rosalba Carrierabefore 1720

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Bust length portrait of a woman, her left breast exposed, and carrying a spear in her right hand. In her hair is a jeweled fillet, trimmed with feathers, and in her right ear she wears a lozenge-shaped jeweled pendant earring. On her back she carries a quiver of arrows. Her head is inclined slightly to the left and turned directly toward the viewer.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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