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Portrait of Miss Mary Tadman

Portrait of Miss Mary Tadman by John I Smart (British, 1741–1811)

Medium

watercolor and graphite, heightened with traces of white gouache on paper

Dimensions

image: 14.2 × 12.2 cm · sheet: 15.4 × 13.4 cm

Classification

Portrait Miniature

Department

Drawings

Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art

Credit

Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry

Accession Number

1997.78

Tags

male

About this artwork

Mary Tadman’s head and shoulders face right. Her eyes are brown, and she wears a necklace of small pearls and a drop pearl earring. She wears her dark brown hair high in a classically inspired bun, with a braid across the hairline and many curls falling over her forehead and in front of her ears. Her white dress is delicately embroidered at the edges along the bust and is tied at the empire style waist, with a small pin fastened to the front. The translucent white sleeves worn beneath the dress ...

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