Portrait miniature of Janet Hobart Griggs
Portrait miniature of Janet Hobart Griggs
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- Description
- Oval half-length portrait of a blue-eyed, red-haired girl, turned and looking to the viewer's left. She wears a black tam o' shanter with a gray feather and a blue-and-green plaid scarf pinned on the left shoulder of her dark blue or black buttoned coat or cape. Cloudy blue sky background; light is from left. Signed at lower right. Housing includes a flat lens, bead-patterned flat bezel, and flat case with ring hanger attached at top of reverse; case reverse is also engraved "Janet Hobart Griggs / 1903" and struck "TIFFANY & C\o" at bottom. Hangs in a red velvet-covered display frame fitted to hold eight miniatures, 1989.0343.16-.23.
- Artist is M. E. Reynolds.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- painting
- Date made
- 1903
- case maker; retailer
- Tiffany & Co.
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Paterson
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- watercolor (painting material)
- ivory (painting material)
- glass (lens material)
- silver (case material)
- gold (case finish material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5/8 in x 4 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 1.5875 cm x 10.795 cm x 13.97 cm
- ID Number
- 1989.0343.21
- catalog number
- 1989.0343.21
- accession number
- 1989.0343
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Elizabeth G. Cooke
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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