Grace Hughes

c. 1900

Harry Lenfield Perkins

Associated Names
Harry Lenfield Perkins

Artist, American, 1853 - 1921

The image displays an upper body profile of a young woman facing left. She has delicate facial features, well-defined eyebrows, and focused eyes. Her hair is dark and styled in an updo. She is wearing a high-necked dress with textured fabric, stripes, and floral embellishments on the shoulders. The background is plain, and the photograph is framed with a decorative border, with a mark indicating it was taken by Perkins in Baltimore.

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Provenance

Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

bottom right on mount printed in white ink: Perkins / BALTIMORE / 21 E. BALTO. ST.; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: RK06; by unknown hand, upper left and upper center in graphite: #1 / 49785 / Grace Hughes / [illegible]