Description:Seated near three-quarter length portrait of subject facing three-quarter left and wearing a dark off-the-shoulder dress with cap sleeves. Her hands are folded at her waist, left over right, and she holds a single pink flower in her left hand. Her chair is upholstered in red, and she has a white fringed stole behind her back and under her arms. Her dark hair is parted in the middle; she wears drop earrings; and her gaze is directed toward the viewer. The background is the blue and rose colors of the sunset grounded below by trees and hills in the distance.
Notes:Great, Great Aunt of owner. Subject was the daughter of Rev. Alfred Henry Dashiell (1794-1882); wife of Dr. William H. Lytle. Subject is half-sister of Mary C. Lytle Ledbetter.
