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Portrait study of an unidentified woman
Portrait study of an unidentified woman

Portrait study of an unidentified woman

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Object Details

Title:
Portrait study of an unidentified woman
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Graphite on paper on cream paper
Dimensions
10 1/2 x 7 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[lower center of drawing in graphite]: Poise & influence of the theater [?] in the / National life in Every Nation; [bottom left of drawing in graphite]: a monument / a difference; [bottom right of drawing in graphite]: joyous, spontaneous / in the work they / are doing; [lower right of cream paper in graphite]: Violet Oakley; [bottom left of cream paper in graphite]: Lady Simpson [?]; [bottom center of cream paper in graphite]: Lady Simson of Jamaica

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