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Collage Picture. Advice to the Bride, 1843 * Collage Picture. Advice to the Bride, 1843, depicting 2 standing female figures composed of a variety of materials laid onto a blue cotton background, including moiré silk, lace, wool, feathers, velvet, felt, etc., with painted facial features, the bride on the right, wearing a white gown with headdress and veil over her ringletted hair, holding a Bible in her left hand, and wearing pearly earrings and a heart-shaped locket on a chain around her neck, her mother on the left, attired in a crinoline gown, a flower and feather-trimmed bonnet on her head, and a jewel at her neck, some toning to lace, background foxed, contemporary calligraphic label in black ink to upper left 'Advice to the Bride 1843', stained and slightly rubbed, lace border (incorporating label), 39 x 45.5 cm (15.5 x 18 ins), gilt moulded framed repainted and with losses, glazed (47 x 53.5 cm) QTY: (1)