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.
