Monument to Commodore Matthew C. Perry
Monument to Commodore Matthew C. Perry
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- Description (Brief)
- black and white stereograph mounted on yellow cardstock; statue of Commodore Matthew C. Perry designed by John Quincy Adams Ward in 1869; pedestal designed by Richard Morris Hunt; located in Touro Park in Newport, R.I.; image of a monument with a bronze statue of a man on top of a stone pedestral with a square wrought-iron fence surrounding it set in a park-like setting; statue of man is standing with a sword pointed towards ground in his left hand and drawing his cape up to his chest in his right hand; printed on label on verso "Statue of Com. M. C. Perry, / Newport, R.I. / Photographed by J.A. Williams, / No. 2 Downing's Block."; photograph by J.A. Williams
- Object Name
- stereograph
- date made
- ca 1869-05
- depicted (sitter)
- Perry, Matthew C.
- place made
- United States: Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Newport
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm
- ID Number
- 2012.3033.0613
- nonaccession number
- 2012.3033
- catalog number
- 2012.3033.0613
- subject
- Sailors
- War of 1812
- Mexican War
- U. S. Navy
- War of 1812
- Mexican War
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- Military
- Photography
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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