Half length portrait of an elderly woman, deceased, her eyes mostly shut. She has been placed in a seated position, head tilted slightly to the right. She wears a while lace bonnet with broad, gauzy lappets tied beneath the chin. She wears a dark dress, and her hands are crossed in her lap, wearing pale gloves.
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old; woman; dress; bonnet; lappet; dead; seated; chair; memanto mori
The two plates show the same woman alive and dead.
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Half length portrait of an elderly woman, deceased, her eyes mostly shut. She has been placed in a seated position, head tilted slightly to the right. She wears a while lace bonnet with broad, gauzy lappets tied beneath the chin. She wears a dark dress, and her hands are crossed in her lap, wearing pale gloves.
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