Painted silhouette of a young, fashionably-dressed woman wearing a plumed hat, hair curls and ringlets.
miniatures (paintings)
Painting
Painting, Miniature
Painting, Miniature
"MODELS/IN WAX/and/Striking Likenesses/ In Profile/OR IN COLOURS/Executed in a superior stile[sic] of/Elegance & Fashion/ by Mrs. Hudson/from/the late Secard's/Pall Mall/London" (printed)
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Hudson, Mrs. (Maker)
London, England
5 3/4 x 5 x 1 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.1648
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