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Description
Elma Mary Gove (1832-1921); Portrait painter and crayon artist, who exhibited at the National and Pennsylvania Academies and the Boston Athenaeum between 1849 and 1860. From 1849-1855 she was listed as living in New York City, in 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio; in 1859 in Brooklyn, New York, and in 1860 in New York City.
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Medium: Pencil.
Date: 1863.
Unsigned.
Dimensions: Size Approx: 270mm x 187mm.
Condition: Yellowing and foxing. A small rip / tear to the lower left corner (please see photos). Soiling. Various stains to the paper. Scruffy around the edges.
Another sketch to the reverse side. Unframed.
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