[Patriotic Portrait]
![[Patriotic Portrait]](/internal/media/dispatcher/304964/preview)
Artist
Unknown American
CultureAmerican
Titles
- [Patriotic Portrait]
Datec. 1917-1918
MediumGelatin silver print mounted on celluloid button
Dimensions1/2 × 9 × 9 in. (1.3 × 22.9 × 22.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anne Wilkes Tucker in honor of Fred Baldwin on the occasion of his 80th birthday
Object number2009.443
Not on view
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
Celluloid-covered
plaques and buttons that combined photographic portraits with a colorful
printed surround were popular in the early 20th century, often as memorials of
loved ones. We no longer know whether this stogie-smoking young man was being
celebrated as he headed off to war or mourned as a battlefield casualty, but he
or his family chose a patriotic display showing the U.S. Capitol, soldiers
standing by artillery, and the flags of World War I allies Italy, Great
Britain, the United States, France, Belgium, and Greece.
Provenance[Jo Tartt Gallery, Washington, D.C.]; purchased by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Houston; given to MFAH, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in the image, lower right: RB SCHIEFNER
Cataloguing data may change with further research.
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