Miniature Portrait of Sarah Hodgson Ball with: Miniature Portrait of George Bicknell Washington Ball,

by James R. Tooley, Jr. by Miniatures, Thomas Officer

$3,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Signed

Signed on back Painted by Tho. S. Officer / Phila. December 22-1844 ; signed lower right Tooley 1843 . In a contemporary brass mat and bevelled glass within a plush-lined leather folding case; miniature measurers 3 x 2-1/2 inches, the case, overall, 7 x 6-1/4 inches. Ms. Hodgson miniature in fine condition, some wear to folding case; Mr. Ball with a crack at the right edge, away from the subject; the miniature is otherwise fine. Case shows some wear. Item

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