Portrait of a Young Girl, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Portrait of a Young Girl

The young girl in this painting wears a black gown with puffed or “melon” sleeves. Fashionable ladies sometimes inflated these with removable down-filled pillows

Thomas Seir Cummings

Creation Date: ca. 1830
Type: Painting
Medium: watercolor on ivory

Dimensions: sight 1 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (4.4 x 3.8 cm) oval

Object #: 6051
Credit Line: Museum purchase

Partner URL: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=6051
Linked Data URI: saam:object/id/1982.98.1
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