Content/Description:

Half length portrait of a woman seated next to a table. She wearing a bonnet with spectacles perched on top, and is holding knitting work and a card with 86 scratched over it on the plate (her age?). Several books are on the table and a cane is in front.

Image Package Note:

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Plate: table cover slightly hand colored. Mat: octagonal.

Container or Case Note:

Type: case. Motif: Curved Octagon with Scroll Center (Rinhart no. 219). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 12 x 10.8 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed single leaf motif.

General Note:

Plate size indicates likely British or European origin.

Subjects:

Women
Aged persons

Genre/Format:

Portraits