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Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Lady Wearing Tortoise Shell Combs in Hair
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Lady Wearing Tortoise Shell Combs in Hair

Artist Sheldon Peck (American, 1797-1868)
Artist Unknown
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1830
MediumOil on wood
DimensionsOverall: 30 x 23 3/8 in. (76.2 x 59.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Object number76.53.2
On View
Not on view
DescriptionPortrait of a woman wearing a grey dress with voluminous sleeves and a lace collar. She has tortoise shell combs in her hair.

Exhibition History"Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976.