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Mrs. Baker
ca. 1800-1814
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- image (oval): 2 3/8 x 1 15/16 in. (6.1 x 4.9 cm)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer
- 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
Although this miniature is undated, Mrs. Baker’s dress and hairstyle are of the fashion favored in Paris during the early 1800s, and in America by the 1810s.
