Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "37523",
    "label": "Mr. Taft",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.485"
}

{
    "id": "37523",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.485",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mr. Taft",
    "description": "Head and shoulders portrait of a young man with curly brown hair, wearing a black coat with turn-over collar, white vest, white cambric shirt with a high collar and a black neckcloth. The assymetrical window on the back is typical of the period, unfortunately the hair has been lost.Alvan Clark was self-taught. He worked in the North East United States, being most active in miniature painting between 1836 and 1860. In that year he founded Alvan Clark & Sons in Cambridgeport, which became the leading firm of American telescope makers.",
    "provenance": "Herbert Lawton Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink Foundation Inc., Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1840",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.485",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Miniatures",
        "miniatures (paintings)",
        "portraits"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.485_Back_DD_T12.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.485_Back_DD_T12.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.485_Back_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.3,
            "height": 5.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H excluding frame: 2 7/8 x W: 2 1/4 in. (7.3 x 5.72 cm); Framed H: 3 x W: 2 1/2 in. (7.62 x 6.35 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "watercolor on ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5965"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

{
    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_38.485_Back_DD_T12.jpg",
    "mediaId": "2f59f2e2997140c5"
}