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A Gentleman

L. Fischer (?) (Artist)
1835
watercolor on ivory
(18th and 19th Centuries )

This very plain portrait miniature is of an unknown gentleman. A hoop is attached to the top of the black frame suggesting the piece was used as a necklace.

Inscription

[Signed and dated] Front right: B. Fischer 1835

Provenance
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A.J. Fink, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink Foundation Inc., Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.

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Geographies

USA (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 1 1/2 in. (3.81 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.

38.533

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