[Unidentified elderly woman.]

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/b1a12ff3995637b6a9547b33652205bc

Title

[Unidentified elderly woman.]

Date

[ca. 1850]

Description

Plate size indicates likely British or European origin.
Half length portrait of a woman seated next to a table. She wearing a bonnet with spectacles perched on top, and is holding knitting work and a card with 86 scratched over it on the plate (her age?). Several books are on the table and a cane is in front.

Subject

Women
Aged persons

Source

California Digital Library

Relation

https://thumbnails.calisphere.org/clip/150x150/2b42939c0c982a7791800a13e2598759

Type

image

References

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5x0nb1t4

Date

[ca. 1850]

Source

California Digital Library

Subject

Women
Aged persons

Citation

“[Unidentified elderly woman.],” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed September 10, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/8526.

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