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Portrait of a Young Girl
Thomas Seir Cummings, born Bath, England 1804-died Hackensack, NJ 1894
The young girl in this painting wears a black gown with puffed or “melon” sleeves. Fashionable ladies sometimes inflated these with removable down-filled pillows.
- Date
- ca. 1830
- Type
- Painting-Miniature
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Department
- SAAM
- Institution
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- saam_1982.98.1
- Credit
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
