Portrait miniature of Elizabeth Griggs
date: label: Date made
content: 1907
name: label: case maker; retailer
content: Tiffany & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Oval half-length portrait of an older girl with blue eyes and brown hair seated against a landscape, her body turned to the viewer's right as she looks forward. Her long curls hang over the puffed blouse and sleeves of her high-necked white dress, which is accented by a light blue sash and gold necklace with aqua stones; a bracelet and ring are on her right hand. Light is from front left. Signed at lower right. Housing includes a convex lens, bead-patterned flat bezel, and flat case with hinged ring hanger attached at top of reverse; case reverse is also engraved "Elizabeth Griggs / Feb 1907" and struck "TIFFANY & C\o" at bottom. Hangs in a red velvet-covered display frame fitted to hold eight miniatures, 1989.0343.16-.23.
label: Description
content: Artist is M. E. Reynolds.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place painted
content: United States: New Jersey, Paterson
label: place case made and retailed
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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: 1989.0343.19
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0343.19
label: accession number
content: 1989.0343
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
physicalDescription: 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: Physical Description
content: gold (case finish material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 4 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in; .9525 cm x 10.795 cm x 13.97 cm