Naive Miniature Portrait of Blonde Woman in Blue Dress c. 1900 vessel with poems and their backsides provide translation

and their backsides provide translation and other practical (and also poetic) information

Just a sweet

and seems to me really contemporary

with tiny tears to the top right and bottom left corners

7 1/2" tall x 3 5/8" in diameter

Naive Miniature Portrait of Blonde Woman in Blue Dress c. 1900 vessel with poems and their backsides provide translationThis one jumped out to me from amid a crowd of stuff and she seemed so eager for company there was no way I could resist! Happily, the back of the frame is papered over in newspaper, which is full of clues as to her creation, including mention of the investiture of a Rev. John Synott first thing, which, together with a few other clues, seems to date her to right around 1900 and to Hartford County, Connecticut. Such a great open face I think, even