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American 19th Century

Portrait of a Native American Man, c. 1860

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Medium

ambrotype

Dimensions

image (visible): 6 × 4.8 cm (2 3/8 × 1 7/8 in.)
mat: 8.3 × 7 cm (3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
case: 9.4 × 8.2 × 1.9 cm (3 11/16 × 3 1/4 × 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Funds from Clinton and Jean Wright

Accession Number

2023.116.1

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

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Inscription

by unknown hand, lower right in black ink on paper under brass mat: Shappeen / [illegible]

Provenance

(sale, Cowan's, Cincinnati, OH, 21 June 2019, lot 251); Dan Schwab; Tim Kernan; Mike Medhurst, Oak Brook, IL, 2022; NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Medhurst, Mike

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