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- Artist
- Unidentified
- Luce Center Label
- Miniature paintings memorializing a friend or family member grew popular in the nineteenth century when the death of Prince Albert sent Queen Victoria into deep mourning. A name and death date on a locket, pin, or ring marked the passing of a loved one, and artists sometimes mixed a lock of the deceased person’s hair in with the pigment. The paintings often showed the bereaved person next to a tomb or cinerary urn, as in Mourning Locket for A. R. and Mourning Ring, and sometimes included symbols of grieving such as a dove or weeping willow.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer
- 1790s
- Object number
- 1999.27.79
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting-Miniature
- Medium
- watercolor, mother of pearl, and metal on ivory
- Dimensions
- image (oval): 2 11/16 x 2 1/4 in. (6.8 x 5.7 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Landscape
- State of being\emotion\sorrow
- Figure female\full length
- Monument\tomb
- Primitive\mourning
- Primitive\mourning
- Religion\angel
- Record ID
- saam_1999.27.79
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk700136139-2fc3-4bf4-b761-2ea70809c1e4
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