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Commander Napoleon Collins

E. & H. T. Anthony; Mathew B. Brady

Artwork Details

Commander Napoleon Collins
circa 1862-1865
E. & H. T. Anthony; Mathew B. Brady
albumen print on paper
Gift of Dr. Seymour and Barbara K. Adelson
2008/2.196.16

Description

Subject Matter:

Commander Collins furrows his eyebrows as he gazes to the left out of the picture plane. He sits in his naval uniform against a blank background. Here he poses for the photographer Mathew Brady, whose studio produced a large number of cartes-de-visite of noteworthy United States Army and Navy officers during the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Physical Description:

Half-length, seated portrait of a bearded man in a military uniform.

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