Silas Wright (The Gallery of Illustrious Americans)
Artwork Details
- Title: Silas Wright (The Gallery of Illustrious Americans)
- Artist: Francis d' Avignon (French, 1813–1861, active America 1840–60)
- Photographer: After Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823?–1896 New York)
- Printer: D'Avignon's Press (New York, NY)
- Publisher: Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY)
- Sitter: Silas Wright Jr. (American, Amherst, Massachusetts 1795–1847 Canton, New York)
- Date: 1850
- Medium: Lithograph after a daguerreotype
- Dimensions: oval image: 11 3/16 x 9 5/8 in. (28.4 x 24.4 cm)
stone: 13 15/16 x 10 3/8 in. (35.4 x 26.4 cm)
sheet: 18 3/4 x 13 3/8 in. (47.7 x 33.9 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
- Object Number: 24.90.575
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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