Hollow cut bust-length silhouette portrait set over black silk of a woman facing left and wearing a bonnet, mounted in a gilded molded wood frame.
silhouettes
glass (material)
Silhouette
Silhouette
"Died + burried in Lyone, N.Y. about 1841 age 88 / Cornelia Cook. Great Grandmother of Constance W." (Pencil)
Cook, Cornelia
3676
Unknown
American
5 3/8 x 4 3/4 x 1 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Susan Norton
1990.286
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