Artist:Unknown
Medium: Watercolor on ivory or porcelain (?), framed in metal locket with glass lenses
Dates:ca. 1797
Dimensions: Image (sight): 2 3/4 x 2 13/16 in. (7 x 7.1 cm) Frame: 3 1/16 x 3 1/16 in. (7.8 x 7.8 cm)
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Museum Location: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 21.476
Image: 21.476_front_PS1.jpg,
Catalogue Description: Recto: portrait of older man with gray wig and reddish sideburns; wears navy jacket over pink vest and white stock; holds book with proper right hand; seascape in background with small ship on horizon at left and large full-sailed ship on right. Verso: mourning scene with male and female mourners flanking pyramidal grave raised on block pedestal; weeping willow tree painted on reverse of convex glass lens.