Painting of portrait of an unknown woman in black with a white bonnet

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A mounted portrait painting of an older woman wearing a lace-edged bonnet with a small white scarf with lace ends crossed around her neck. The woman wears a large black dress. The painting seems to have been done in the shape of an oval.

• SIUE Archives

Godfrey Photograph Collection

• culture

Unknown

English

• Object

• Color drawing
• jpg

color painting

12 x 10 [inches]

• GodfreyPhoto-O-001