Antique miniature portraits of the Tormey-Holder Collection

 

 


American: Artist Unknown

 

 

Portrait miniature of a an unknown Jacksonian era lady wearing a lace cap -- artist unknown

Jacksonian Era Lady Wearing a Lace Cap

American
circa 1837*
Artist unknown

2 1/8 x 2 5/8 inches (sight)

watercolor on ivory; housed under glass in a gilt copper
case with a cast foliate border and bail


*Enclosed within the miniature's gilded copper case, serving as padding behind the ivory substrate of the portrait, was a crumpled piece of newsprint, from a Baltimore, Maryland newspaper, dated March 10, 1837.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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