Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Oval brass form surrounding scene made of hair, depicting tomb monument topped by urn and inscribed: "Triste souvenir d'une soeur cherie." ("Sad Memory of a Cherished Sister") Tomb flanked by tufts of grass with a weeping willow tree behind, all under a domed glass cover. Mounted in blue-green velvet-covered oval case, interior covered in grey-green velvet.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1810
- Credit Line
- From the Collection of Mrs. Lathrop C. Harper
- Medium
- Hair, cardboard, brass, velvet, glass
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (closed): 3.3 x 10 x 11.5 cm (1 5/16 x 3 15/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
- H x W x D (open): 3.3 x 10 x 23.4 cm (1 5/16 x 3 15/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
- Type
- miniatures
- Decorative Arts
- Mourning picture
