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Portrait #1691
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Subject/Title:
| Lytle, (Mrs.) Lavinia Jane Dashiell |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date
Created: | ca 1840 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | |
| Image Dimensions: | 30 x 26 |
| Materials/Media: | Oil |
| Date Documented: | 10 September 2008 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Seated near three-quarter length portrait of subject facing three-quarter left and wearing a dark off-the-shoulder dress with cap sleeves. Her hands are folded at her waist, left over right, and she holds a single pink flower in her left hand. Her chair is upholstered in red, and she has a white fringed stole behind her back and under her arms. Her dark hair is parted in the middle; she wears drop earrings; and her gaze is directed toward the viewer. The background is the blue and rose colors of the sunset grounded below by trees and hills in the distance. |
| History of Work: | |
| Notes: | Great, Great Aunt of owner. Subject was the daughter of Rev. Alfred Henry Dashiell (1794-1882); wife of Dr. William H. Lytle. Subject is half-sister of Mary C. Lytle Ledbetter.
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