# Portrait of a Young Woman

- By: Elihu Vedder (American, 1836 – 1923)
- Date: ca. 1885
- Medium: Black crayon, white chalk, on buff paper
- Classification: Portraits
- Dimensions: 20.8 x 24.2 cm (8 3/16 x 9 1/2 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/112438)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/f5e9e5a614ac6a5c3ab643ad51b76cbf.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 young woman, her head turned sharply to the right. Her hair forms a knot at the nape of her neck.