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1816
GUSN-6666
Half-length portrait of a gray haired man in black coat, three-quarter view to left.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
painting (coating)
crescents (shapes)
mountains
water
Picture
Portrait
Oil on Canvas
Oil
Painted
Water
Moon
Mountain
Portrait
Pen script on reverse of stretcher,upper right: ""Samuel Norton/ Copy by Ordway of an 1816/portrait by Frothingham.
Norton, Samuel
1990. 100
Ordway, Alfred, 1819-1897, Ordway (Maker)
After Frothingham, James (American painter, 1786-1864)
32 x 27.125 x 1.625 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Susan Norton
1990.100
1816 (After)
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