Engraving
- Title:
- Isaac Lea
- Object Name:
- Engraving
- Object ID:
- 2010.501.0644
- Creator:
- Smith, Hezekiah Wright; Gould & Lincoln
- Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- 1860
- Description:
- Engraving. Portrait of Isaac Lea (1792-1886).Engraved by Hezekiah Wright Smith . Steel engraving printed on paper. Bust length portrait of a middle-age man facing right, thinning light colored hair with high forehead, long sideburns and whiskers around edge of chin, wire-rim glasses, wearing dark-colored coat with wide lapels and collar, 2 buttons and one button hole. Collar different texture cloth. Edge of dark vest underneath coat collar, light colored shirt with turned up collar and dark color cravat. Dark colored ribbon inside coat diagonally across the shirt. Light gray background above both shoulders. Facsimile signature below portrait: "Isaac Lea". Below that in engraved script: "EngD.. for the Annual of Scientific Discovery 1860." Below that in normal font: "Gould & Lincoln, Boston." Under edge of image at right side is: "H. W. Smith." On back in pencil is printed "Isaac Lea".
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-7.55 W-4.8 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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