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Little Girl with Doll
John Carlin (born Philadelphia, PA 1813-died New York City 1891)
ca. 1854
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sight 2 1/4 x 1 7/8 in. (5.7 x 4.8 cm) oval
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- 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
We do not know the identity of this young girl, who is around four or five years old. Her hair has been styled into ringlets, which was fashionable for ladies and children alike during the 1840s and 1850s.
