Miniature portrait on ivory of Helen Waterston, daughter of Anna Quincy Waterston (see "Mrs Jack" by Louise Hall Thorpe). Girl is wearing a lavender dress. Gilt molded oval frame with laurel leaves below in larger rectangular stand. With stepped canted base.
portraits
ivory (tooth component)
Painting
Painting, Miniature
Painting, Miniature
Waterston, Helen, d. 1857
Unknown
4 1/2 x 3 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Helen Howe Allen
1977.26
Probably Massachusetts (United States)
Probably
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