Portrait miniature of Elizabeth Griggs Cooke
date: label: Date made
content: 1922
notes: label: Description
content: Oval half-length portrait of a blue-eyed, brown-haired young woman in bridal or wedding attire, facing and looking at the viewer; a bouquet of white lilies and other flowers rest on her left arm. She wears a veil with an embellished cloche or juliet cap, a square-necked dress with ruched or embroidered layers, and a single-strand pearl necklace with large pearl at bottom. Multicolored mottled background; light is from right. Signed at lower right. Housing includes a convex lens, rounded bezel, and case with post-and-ring hanger; case reverse is engraved "ELIZABETH GRIGGS COOKE / May 1922". Hangs in a red velvet-covered display frame fitted to hold eight miniatures, 1989.0343.16-.23.
label: Description
content: Artist is Isabelle Victoria Hayward (1868-1967) of New York, NY, and Paterson (Manchester), Passaic, NJ.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place painted
content: United States: New Jersey, Paterson
topic: label: used
content: Weddings
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Elizabeth G. Cooke
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0343.18
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0343.18
label: accession number
content: 1989.0343
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gold (case finish material)
label: Physical Description
content: watercolor (painting material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (painting material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (lens material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in; .9525 cm x 9.525 cm x 13.335 cm