Three fourths turned bust-length view of Mary Hall May, brown hair and eyes in her late twenties or early thirties; wearing ruffled white lace collar, brown dress; molded frame with wreath and leaf gilding.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
canvas
oil paint (paint)
Picture
Portrait
Oil
Coated Canvas
Portrait
Gilder's stamp on back ""J.C. Ripley, Gilder & Picture Framer, dealer in pictures of every variety Nos. 77 & 79 MAIN ST NORWICH CONN."" Tacked to stretcher bottom, ""MARY HALL, wife of Ralph May born in Hartford, Conn.""
May, Mary Hall
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Ripley, J.C. (Gilder)
Norwich, CT, USA
35.125 x 29.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.600
Connecticut (United States)
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