Portrait of Miss Mary Tadman
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
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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 ...