American: 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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