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Portrait of a Young Girl
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Portrait of a Young Girl

Thomas Seir Cummings, born Bath, England 1804-died Hackensack, NJ 1894 · ca. 1830 · watercolor on ivory

From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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The young girl in this painting wears a black gown with puffed or “melon” sleeves. Fashionable ladies sometimes inflated these with removable down-filled pillows.

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Credit linePortrait of a Young Girl. ca. 1830. Thomas Seir Cummings, born Bath, England 1804-died Hackensack, NJ 1894. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase. CC0.

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