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Portrait #742
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Subject/Title:
| Howard, Thomas Gibson |
| Artist: | Wright, Thomas Jefferson |
| Date Created: | 1831-1833 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 17 x 15 |
| Image Dimensions: | 10 x 8 |
| Materials/Media: | oil on paper (on photograph?) |
| Date Documented: | 12/6/2005 |
| Condition: | Good |
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| Description: | Three-quarters left profile of a man with short curly brown hair dressed in formal attire (tie, white shirt and vest with black overcoat. A brown strap falls over his left shoulder and is likely his gun strap. The background suggests a landscape of brown rolling hills. His right hand is partially visible at the bottom of the frame. The overall look is a very formal hunting outfit. |
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| Notes: | Subject lived from 1807-1835. Reference: Kentucky Antebellum Portraiture by Edna Talbott Whitley, 1956.
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