Engraving

Title:

David D. Porter

Object Name:

Engraving

Object ID:

2010.501.0864

Creator:

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

Place of Origin:

New York

Date:

1863

Description:

Engraving. Portrait of Admiral David Dixon Porter (1813-1891). Engraved 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... Vol. II. (New York: Johnson, Fry & Company, 1862). facing page 440. Steel engraving printed on paper. Full-length standing portrait of a man with dark hair, full beard and moustache, buttoned dark uniform coat, sword in one hand and cap in the other, dark shoes, dark belt, facing left; the gray background is the deck of a ship with a cannon on the right, ropes, ladder and wheel house and smoke stacks filling the space behind the figure. Immediately below the portrait at the left is "Painted by" with "Alonzo Chappel." printed on the right. "Daniel D. Porter" facsimile signature is printed below the portrait with "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 for the southern district of N.Y." printed in three successive lines below.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-10.9 W-8.1 inches

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection

People:

Porter, David Dixon (1813-1891), Chappel, Alonzo (1828-1887)

Subjects:

Porter, David Dixon