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Captain John Robinson of Newburyport, Massachusetts
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Bust-length portrait of Captian Robinson with brown hair, wearing a navy blue coat, white muslin shirt, high white stock and black neckcloth. His cravat is fastened with an anchor shaped pin. He is depicted before a stippled background with a vignette of a ship at the left. The face is also formed from a network of stippled dots, slightly more fine than those that make up the cloudy background. The back has an elaborate decoration of woven hair with cut-gold initials.
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Provenance
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Owned by Herbert Lawton. Acquired by Abraham Jay Fink, Baltimore; by bequest to A. J. Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963; given to Walters Art Museum, 1963.
Exhibitions
| 1958-1959 | Four Centuries of Miniature Painting from the Collections of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc. and A.J. Fink, Personally. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 6/1/1964 | Treatment | other |
Geographies
USA, Massachusetts, Newburyport (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H excluding frame: 2 7/8 x W: 2 5/16 in. (7.3 x 5.87 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
38.461