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Painting of the Red Cross Brooch
c 1870      

Miss Barton received this small painting as a gift from the Grand Duchess, Louise of Baden.  Hand-written in brown ink around painting is the inscription, "Facsimile of Gold Brooch - emblematic of the “Red Cross."  a gift to Miss Clara Barton, From her Royal highness, the Grand duchess of Baden, only daughter of the Emperor of Germany." 
Oil. H 18.6, W 17.1 cm

Clara Barton National Historic Site, CLBA 16