# Little Girl with Doll

- By: John Carlin (born Philadelphia, PA 1813-died New York City 1891)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=3762)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/f88908e525dac0974d52846145b25219.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.