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Untitled portrait of a girl thought to be Margaret Howe,

Gouache on ivory

Dimensions (Object): 98 x 78 mm (3.9 x 3.1 in.)

Signed with initials, left center: “L.Z.” [read previously as “J.T.”]; inscribed (in a nineteenth-century hand?) on backing paper: “Margaret Howe / by / John Trumbull / on Ivory”

Accession number: 2000.12.2

Gift of Russell G. and Ellen G. D’Oench (BA Wesleyan 1973, Trustee 1977–1979, DAC Curator 1979–1998), 2001

Provenance / Collectors' marks: Possibly Dora Hopkins Adams Sharp (ca. 1871 – ca. 1930), Georgia; her daughter, Dorothy Newton Sharp; by descent to her son, Russell G. D’Oench

Work Type: paintings

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• girls
• miniatures (paintings)
• portraits
• female portraits

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