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Description
Content/DescriptionBust length portrait of a young girl, possibly Olivia Langdon (1845-1904).
Details
Title
[Wash drawing of a girl.]
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
MTP 9.18 [02517]
Subject (Topic)
Girls
Type
Image
Format
Portraits
Extent
1 painting ; visible oval image 9.3 x 7.6 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: drawing, cover glass, preserver. Cover glass: slightly convex. Preserver: decorative.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: half case. Material: velvet. Dimensions: oval 11.1 x 9.5 cm.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Note (on postal card from Doris [Webster]): (verso): 113 / Mr. Fred Anderson / The Bancroft Library / Berkeley 4 / California; (recto): June 12 I am sending you and Henry another item that shows M.T.'s love for children. It is a picture of the little girl that he carried around when he was on the river, and later left in the family attic in St. Louis and descended like so many other things to Annie. We are in the midst of bad weather. Greetings to you both. Doris. It may be delayed; very rainy here. Accompanying note (modern, on envelope): Note by [Richard] Bucci: This image looks like a childhood image of Livy. CF OLC 1864 #4. [Compare to Olivia Langdon portrait, MTP 9.03b [02510]]</physfacet>;;;
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