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The image is a portrait of a man in profile, facing right. He is sitting upright, facing forward. The man has defined facial features, strong eyebrows, and styled hair typical of the late 18th or early 19th century. He wears a high-collared shirt with a ruffled front and a dark coat with wide lapels. The background is a dark oval. Below the portrait, the name "B. Harrison" is written.
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The image is a portrait of a man in profile, facing right. He is sitting upright, facing forward. The man has defined facial features, strong eyebrows, and styled hair typical of the late 18th or early 19th century. He wears a high-collared shirt with a ruffled front and a dark coat with wide lapels. The background is a dark oval. Below the portrait, the name "B. Harrison" is written.

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Benjamin Harrison

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Date
1807
Medium
mezzotint and engraving in black on wove paper mounted to brown wove paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 5.72 × 5.56 cm (2 1/4 × 2 3/16 in.) sheet (trimmed to plate): 6.67 × 6.19 cm (2 5/8 × 2 7/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.1584.39.4
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)
Time span
1801 to 1825
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
Saint-Mémin Collection of Portraits

Subjects and terms

  • portrait
  • American
  • engraving
  • mezzotint
  • Man
  • Profile
Provenance

the artist, Dijon, France; Léon Victor Raoul Leclerc, Vicomte de Juigné (the artist's nephew), Dijon, France, 1852; (Henry Stevens, London, England, c. 1859); William W. Corcoran, Washington, DC, c. 1874; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1875; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

lower center mount in black ink by unknown hand: Bn. Harrison.

NGA object ID 215107. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.