Lady in a wine red dress

Description Waist-length, three-quarter to right portrait of a lady with smooth black hair, wearing a wine-red velvet dress with low cut lace yoke. This miniature reputedly was taken from the pocket of a dead officer on a Southern battlefield of the Civil War.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/24/1964	Treatment	other
6/30/1964	Treatment	other

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

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