Is This Jane Austen?
Apr. 19th, 2007 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo
This is the Rice portrait of the teenage Jane Austen which is being sold at Christie's today.
Is it authentic ?
Hmmmmmm.
It's supported by oral tradition but...
...Some people think the frock is all wrong for the 1780s.
Short of going back in a Tardis we're never going to know.
But it's pretty, isn't it?
