Artwork Details
- Title
- Woman in a Red Dress
- Artist
- Date
- 1821
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sight 3 x 2 1⁄2 in. (7.7 x 6.3 cm) oval
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- watercolor on ivory
- Keywords
- Portrait female — unidentified — bust
- Object Number
- 1999.27.29
Artwork Description
This miniature is housed in an elegant red leather case with a green velvet lining, colors that compliment the sitter’s pale complexion and richly colored gown. Although the cut of her bodice is more restrained than an English dress might be, the sitter wears her hair piled high and curled in ringlets around her face, like many English women of the day.