Painting
- Title:
- Quite Ready
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1970.001.01
- Creator:
- Huse, Stella M.; Morris, Philip Richard (1833-1902)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Enfield, NH
- Date:
- 1886
- Description:
- Portrait, Quite Ready, by Stella M. Huse (b.1869), 1886. Copy of Philip Richard Morris' (1833-1902) portrait, "Quite Ready". Full-length portrait of a little girl seated on a staircase; facing left. Sitter has blond hair with bangs and blue eyes. She is wearing an elaborate white satin bonnet, white ostrich plume, and white ribbon tied under chin. She is also wearing a white satin dress with two ruffles at bottom hem, lace ruffle at elbow, lace mitt on left wrist, and white satin slippers. Her hands clasped across waist and a white satin bag hangs from left arm. Brown Bulldog seated at feet of girl, facing slightly right; black nose and red collar. Staircase painted green and gray with red and green carpet tread. Panelled woodwork in background; woodwork painted dark red. Signed lower right: "S.M. Huse, '86 / after / P.R.Morris". Gilded frame with stamped metal design, flowers in cove and foliage exterior molding.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-37.25 W-25 inches
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Nellie L. Pierce
- Subjects:
- Portrait paintings, Portraits, Girls, Childhood & youth, Dogs, Bulldogs
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