- Title:
Fanny Eaton
- Former Title(s):
Study of Fanny Eaton
Head of a Mulatto Woman (Mrs. Eaton)
Head of a mulatto woman
- Date:
- 1861
- Medium:
- Oil on paper laid to linen
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 6 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches (17.1 x 13.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, upper left: "Joanna M Wells 1861"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1991.29
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1991.29FR
- Subject Terms:
- earrings | ethnicity | jewelry | model (person) | pearls | portrait | profile (figure) | queen (person) | shawl | shawls | woman
- Associated People:
- Eaton, Fanny (1835-1924), artists' model
- Access:
- On view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1336
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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