Sculpture
- Title:
- John C. Long
- Object Name:
- Sculpture
- Object ID:
- 2012.030.17 a
- Date:
- 1854-1855
- Description:
- Cameo. Portrait of John C. Long (1795-1865), unidentified artist; 1854-1855. Carved shell cameo. Concave oval, brown-pink background with carved off-white profile bust likeness facing right. Subject has wavy hair, high stock and collar; turned back coat. Notations written in pen and ink on back of shadow box (b) containing cameo: "Mary L. Gilman / Cameo of / Commodore John C. Long / 1854-5."
- Material:
- Shell
- Dimensions:
- H-2 W-1.7 D-0.4 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Perry-Dudley Family Archive and Shepard Collection.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Klaudia S. Shepard
- Subjects:
- Cameo, Long. John Collins
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