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Half-length portrait of man in profile facing left, long hair. short beard.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
ink
paper (fiber product)
watercolor (paint)
Picture
Portrait
Ink
Watercolor
Unidentified Paper
Portrait
Pen script on reverse, center: ""Den. Saml/ Whiting/ Ob 1843/ Billerica, Mass."" Printed in ink on page holder, around circumference of picture is ""Deac Sam Whiting, Billerica, Ob 1843/ This profile...colored by his son/ about the year eighteen hundred/ and ten Came into my possession in 1878""
Deacon Samuel Whiting
Unknown
5.5 x 4.25 x 0.125 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Austin Smith
1964.138
Massachusetts (United States)
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