Portrait of Captain Charles Wilkes

carte de visite

PHOTOGRAPHS
Before 1864
4.00 x 2.50 x 0

Carte de visite; mounted on white board with border of 2 gold lines; three-quarter seated portrait of Captain Charles Wilkes [1798-1897]; taken pre 1864; wearing civilian outfit of dark jacket and trousers, white shirt, and bow tie; seated in arm chair; probably photographed while court-martialed after TRENT incident; printed on reverse "Published by/ E. ANTHONY/ 501 Broadway/ New York/ PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE/ BRADY'S/ National Portrait Gallery"; handwritten on reverse "WILKES".


1997.155.2

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