- Title:
Fanny Eaton [2016, YCBA]
- Former Title(s):
Study of Fanny Eaton [2016, YCBA]
Head of a Mulatto Woman (Mrs. Eaton) [2008, YCBA]
Head of a mulatto woman [1901, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1861
- Medium:
- Oil on paper laid to linen
- Dimensions:
- 6 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches (17.1 x 13.7 cm), Frame: 13 3/4 × 12 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (34.9 × 31.8 × 3.8 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), artist's model
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1336
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