Henry Glisson

Periodca. 1865

MediumWatercolor on ivory

DimensionsImage: 2.31 × 1.38 in. (5.9 × 3.5 cm)

ClassificationsPortrait Miniatures & Silhouettes

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Joseph Purcell, 1938

Object number1140

DescriptionPortrait of a young man with black wavy hair and dark eyes, gazing proper left. He wears a black cap, black jacket, and vest with a casually tied black stock fastened in front with a stickpin and chain. The portrait is housed in a maroon leather case with padded green silk lining, held in place beneath colorless glass with green plush velvet edging.
NotesRecords indicate that the sitter is Lieutenant Henry Yeatman Glisson (d.1868), a Lieutenant in the United States Navy. Glisson was born and died in Philadelphia; he was the eldest son of Rear Admiral Oliver Glisson (1809-1890)

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