#53

Two Early Hand-Tinted Images of Shirley Temple Cherished by Gertrude Temple
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5" (13 cm.) x 4". Each is an image of young Shirley Temple, hand drawn or color enhanced, with emphasis on her soft blonde curly locks. One is a profile view set in an embossed frame with gold velvet matting and oval brass inner frame, with easel back. The other is a firm-sided brown leather travel case which hinges open to dark green velvet lining into which is laid the oval portrait of Shirley, having brass embossed frame and hanging loop. Circa 1930s, an arrangement of these exquisite miniature portraits graced the vanity table and desk of Shirley's mother, Gertrude Temple.