# Portrait Sketch of a Young Woman

- By: Elihu Vedder (American, 1836 – 1923)
- Date: ca. 1885
- Medium: Black crayon, white chalk, on green paper
- Classification: Portraits
- Dimensions: 34 x 19.9 cm (13 3/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Culture: USA
- Credit line: Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/112437)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/e35105d710349e71f166184bf94b8642.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Bust length portrait of a woman, her head turned sharply to the right, shown almost in profile, facing right.