Governor Richard Bassett

1801

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Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

Governor Richard Bassett

1801

Physical Qualities Black and white chalks with stumping over graphite, Sheet: 569 x 389 mm. (56.9 x 38.9 cm.)

Credit Line Bequest of Ellen Howard Bayard

Object Number 1939.181

Bust-length portrait of a man in profile facing right.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1939; by descent from the sitter to Ellen Howard Bayard.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, '250 Years of Painting in Maryland', May 11 - June 17, 1945, p. 34, no. 69.

Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawings and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.

Clarence Winthrop Bowen, History of the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as First President of the United States, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892, opp. p. 67.

Inscribed: RECTO: UL, black chalk, [illegible].