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Portrait miniature
1790–1800
- Medium
- Watercolor on cut sheet of ivory, cut gold frame, blown cut clear and blue glass, braided hair
- Classification
- Portrait miniature
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 8 x 5.8 x 1 cm (3 1/8 x 2 5/16 x 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- USA
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Bequest of Sarah Cooper Hewitt
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Miniature, oval-shaped, in gold frame, showing painted portrait of young man wearing blue coat with red collar and lace jobot. Back shows cracked blue glass with smaller inner oval set within smaller gold frame containing braided human hair.
