"EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA."

tooth

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - TEETH
marad; scrimshaw
after 1853
ivory
L. 8", W. 4", D. 2-1/2"

Scrimshaw tooth from the collection of actor Raymond McKee, a star (along with the whaling vessel CHARLES W. MORGAN) in the 1922 silent film "Down to the Sea in Ship". Tooth shows a single engraved image of a military figure astride a rearing horse above the caption "EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA," after an illustration of that title depicting Nicholas I (1796-1855), Czar of Russia 1825-55; from a painting by Alexander Petrovich Schwabe (1818-1872), 1843; anonymously engraved for "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion," Boston, Nov. 12, 1853. That illustration (with significant changes and additions) also formed the basis of "Alexander, Emperor of Russia, and his Three Brothers," in "Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion," Boston, 1856. See 1939.1740

2001.128.3

Raymond McKee Collection