Lady in a wine red dress

Description Conservation Provenance Credit

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

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Creator

Anne Hall (American, 1792-1863) (Artist)

Period

ca. 1850

Medium

watercolor on ivory
(Miniatures)

Accession Number

38.464

Measurements

H excluding frame: 3 1/2 x W: 2 3/4 in. (8.89 x 6.99 cm); Framed H: 6 1/4 x W: 5 1/4 in. (15.88 x 13.34 cm)

Geographies

USA (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View