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Mrs. John Jordan, Jr.
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
We know nothing about this woman, who appears here in a simple dress of sheer fabric, with a small locket at her throat. The locket may contain a miniature, as artists during the nineteenth century often showed their sitters wearing a token similar to the one being painted.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMrs. John Jordan, Jr.. 1848. John Henry Brown, born Lancaster, PA 1818-died Philadelphia, PA 1891. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund. CC0.
