SculptureBritish18th century
Female Portrait Bust
18th century
Artists
James TassieArtist
Description
Female head in left profile. Elaborately curled hair and braided bun.
Dimensions
sight: 2 x 1.7 x 1 cm (13/16 x 11/16 x 3/8 in.)
Provenance
[Frederick Rathbone, London], sold; [through Cooper and Griffith, New York] to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1910, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
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