About the Artwork
Lewis Cass
ca. 1857
Mathew B. Brady
1823-1896
American
Unknown
Salted paper print
Image: 18 3/4 × 16 inches (47.6 × 40.6 cm) Mount: 20 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (52.7 × 41.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
F1983.77
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Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, below image: Lewis Cass
Provenance
Mathew B. Brady
Frederick Hill Mserve
family of F.H Mserve
George Rinhart (Colebrook, Connecticut, USA)
1983-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Mathew B. Brady, Lewis Cass, ca. 1857, salted paper print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, F1983.77.
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