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Features in soft and tentative strokes of brown, with black in the eyes and a white highlight, on a very pale carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, hatched and lined, and generally worked over in darker colour with some grey gouache for the lights; chemise in pale grey wash, modelled in grey and thick white; dress in dark pink wash, worked over in gummy dark red and with the lights in pink-grey gouache; the mantle in blue wash, modelled in darker colour and with the lights in pale grey; curtain in dark orange-brown over orange wash; architecture in pink-grey gouache and dark grey over a pale brown wash; plant in green and dark brown with touches of purple and white for the flowers; a gold marginal strip; on vellum put down on pasteboard. \n\n<u>Frame:</u> Black stained and polished fruitwood veneer over oak; the joints mitred at the front and halved at the back; a broad composite bolection moulding; oak backboard and simple brass ring screw-in hanger. Inscribed on the backboard in black paint: <i>689E</i> [truncated?]. A nearly illegible early ink inscription: possibly <i>P[ ...  Anne[ ... ]/ Gr[ ... ]</i>; and on an old paper label, in ink: <i>C</i> or possibly <i>E</i>, and a flourish in graphite. 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