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Ink on paper, pine frame, original glass. Three-quarter length portrait of Henry Bilsom Legge, Esq., seated, wearing heavily trimmed coat, lace cravat and cuffs; holding a rolled paper and wearing a curly wig.
portraits
engravings (prints)
engraving (printing process)
glass (material)
paper (fiber product)
pine (wood)
Neoclassical
Picture
Portrait
Portrait
Legge, Henry Bilson
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Houston, Richard (Engraver)
Hoare, William (Painter)
England
15 7/8 x 12 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.223
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