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A half-length oil portrait of a seated woman in black gown with a deep lace décolletage and lac…
Mary Malvina Routh Ellis Dahlgren
A half-length oil portrait of a seated woman in black gown with a deep lace décolletage and lac…
A half-length oil portrait of a seated woman in black gown with a deep lace décolletage and lace cuffs with a white silk under garment beneath a sheer white shawl. The woman has braided brown hair pulled up on the sides and covered with a black lace veil.
Mary Malvina Routh Ellis Dahlgren, Charles Loring Elliot, 1854, oil on canvas, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Mary Malvina Routh Ellis Dahlgren

Artist (American, 1812 - 1868)
Sitter (American, 1813 - 1858)
Date1854
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 36 1/8 × 29 1/8 inches (91.8 × 74 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Jane E. Smith, in memory of her husband, Raymond Telfair Smith.
Object number1948.2
On View
On view
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