Mrs. Sheppard Gandy Seated
Full-length, seated portrait of a woman wearing a shawl and a wide-brimmed hat. She is turned towards the right, examining a piece of cloth in her hands. Verso: Sketch of an elderly man standing and reading.
Credit: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
1859
Graphite, black crayon, brown crayon, white chalk on blue wove paper
1942-50-165
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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