mudwerks:(via Laura Coombs Hills | Flickr)Fire Opal (Grace Mutell, sitter, born late 1870s), 1899. L
mudwerks:(via Laura Coombs Hills | Flickr)Fire Opal (Grace Mutell, sitter, born late 1870s), 1899. Laura Coombs Hills, 1859-1952. Watercolor miniature on ivory. Dimensions: 15.24 x 12.06 cm (6 x 4 ¾ in.). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.Hills was an American Miniaturist, often working with ivory. “When I was a child,” Hills said, “I used to make tiny figures of paper dolls and infinitesimal things…so when I took up miniatures I showed perhaps only another form of this obsession for small things.” -- source link
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