Portrait #375

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Unknown Lady W70
  • Artist:Shumway, Henry Colton
  • Date Created:ca. 1850
  • Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:5 x 3 7/8
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Three-quarters right profile of a young woman with straight brown hair parted in the middle and pulled back and up. Her dress is blue velvet with a white lace insert..She holds a small bouquet of flowers in her right hand. She is seated on a red Victorian sofa. The frame is a rectangle with rounded upper corners.
  • History:Exhibited at Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000.