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Portraits

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 109 Collections and/or Records:

Morris K. Jesup (1830-1908) / UL "Julian Story"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 233
Scope and Contents

Man in business suit seated in green leather chair, holding book in left hand, three-quarter view. Museum President 1881-1908, and founder. Frame: Gilt wood, gesso, bundle of reeds design, 60 1/4 x 50.

Dates: 1909

Morris Ketchum Jesup (1830-1908) / LL "E Johnson 1892"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1250
Scope and Contents

Potrait of Morris K. Jesup wearing a suit, sitting on red velvet chair, holding book entitled, American Museum of Natural History. Inscription: Frame plate "Morris Ketchum Jesup/Third President/of the/American Museum of Natural History/February 14, 1881 - January 2, 1908." Frame: gold gilt, gesso, bronze color paint over gold leaf, 72 1/2 x 59.

Dates: 1892

Mr. Bush

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1017
Scope and Contents

Portrait bust of man wearing robe.

Dates: unknown

Original portraits of Indian chiefs [art original] / by Samuel Seymour, official artist of Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1920

 Collection
Identifier: 61-D
Scope and Contents

Portraits of six members of the 1821-1822 Native American delegation to Washington, DC. Probably copies of paintings by Charles Bird King lost in the 1865 Smithsonian fire. "These paintings are by neither Seymour nor King." Cf. note by William Sturtevant, Smithsonian Institution, May 1970. Caption and date handwritten on verso of each painting.

Dates: 1822