Miniature watercolor or gouache portrait of Civil War Brevet Brigadier General David B. McKibbin

by David B. McKibbin

$2,500 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

NP Washington DC? : nd ca. 1880 . Small oval portrait, 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches, in an elaborate Victorian gilt and plaster frame chipped around the edges , glazed. The portrait of McKibbin is in profile, in full uniform, with grayish-white hair and beard; offered with a photograph, 4 3/8 x 7 5/8 inches mounted on card stock , picturing the general and his wife in later years, with two other ladies, on a lawn planted with palm trees backmark: J.F. Blake / Belleview Terrace. / Los Angeles,

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