American: Artist Unknown

Jacksonian Era Lady Wearing a Lace Cap

American
circa 1837*
Artist unknown

2 1/8 x 2 5/8 inches (sight)

watercolor on ivory; housed under glass in a gilt copper
case with a cast foliate border and bail

*Enclosed within the miniature's gilded copper case, serving as padding behind the ivory substrate of the portrait, was a crumpled piece of newsprint, from a Baltimore, Maryland newspaper, dated March 10, 1837.