Collection Highlights
Kast
Date:
1675-1690
Object Number:
1941.914
Medium:
Walnut, walnut veneer, elm, oak, ebony
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
"The Much Lov'd Sea-Boy Sleeps", Folio no.18 in the John Ludlow Morton Album
Object Number:
1944.371
Date:
1827
Medium:
Brown ink and wash and graphite on paper, bound into album
Dimensions:
8 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at right middle: "H. Inman 1827"; below at center: "'Far, far from home, on Peru's desert strand, / The much lov'd sea-boy sleeps; fancy still hears / His drowning death-shriek in the sea-bird's scream, / His funeral dirge in ocean's sullen roar!'"
Description:
Genre
Gallery Label:
This portrait is attributed to Henry Inman on stylistic grounds; the date is assigned on the basis of the design of the coat and because Inman at the time was executing similar small portraits.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Emily Ellison Post
Provenance:
John Ludlow Morton, New York City; Harriet E. Morton Ellison; Emily Ellison Post, Jackson Heights, New York City
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
