Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
James Munroe
(18th and 19th Centuries )
This miniature is a section of a steel engraving. The subject is James Monroe, the 5th President of the United States. The steel engraving is after a portrait in oils by Gilbert Stuart (ca. 1820-22) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The back of the miniature is elaborately decorated with a shell shaped panel surrounded by garlands tied with a bow and two colors of enamel.
Provenance
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A.J. Fink, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink Foundation Inc., Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
Geographies
USA (Place of Origin)
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.
38.605