Engraving

Title:

S. F. DuPont

Object Name:

Engraving

Object ID:

2010.501.0329

Creator:

Chappel, Alonzo (1828-1887); Johnson, Fry Co. Publishers

Description:

Engraving. Portrait of Admiral Samuel F. DuPont (1803-1865). 1863. Painted by Alonzo Chappel (1828-1887). Published by Johnson, Fry Company Publishers, New York. From Evert A. Duyckinck, National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, Etc... (New York: Johnson, Fry Company, 1862). Steel engraving, printed on paper. Full-length seated portrait of a middle-aged man facing right, dark hair with curls, sideburns, trim beard, military uniform with long coat, tunic-style, 13 buttons, raised collar, edge of white shirt collar showing above coat, epaulets both shoulders, 3 light-colored stripes of each of coat cuffs, pants plain, dark-colored shoes. On floor to his right is a billed cap with button showing on right edge of its visor that is dark-colored. Paper folded under cap. Seated in chair with straight-turned legs, wide rung across front and two thin turned rungs on side. Small turn area on right front leg below rung. Two rails across back of chair and slightly curved upper style with carved top. Man holding paper map over table which with dark-colored cloth and ink well with pen, 2-3 folded papers. Rug with large pattern. Evidence of window frame behind him. Probable corner of room to back side due to coloration. Facsimile signature below portrait : "S. F. DuPont".
Below that at left side "Painted by". On right: "Alonzo Chappel." Below signature: "Likeness from a recent Photograph from life. / Johnson Fry Co. Publishers, New York / Entered according to act of Congress A. D.1863 by Johnson, Fry Co. in the clerks office of the district court of the southern district of N. Y."

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-10.9 W-8.15 inches

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection

People:

Chappel, Alonzo (1828-1887), DuPont, Samuel F. (1803-1865)

Subjects:

DuPont, Samuel F.