Miniature Portrait on Ivory of John Wright

Description:

Miniature Portrait on Ivory of John Wright, Joseph Tassy, c. 1833, the man dressed in a black overcoat with a buff-colored waistcoat, signed "Tassy 1833" along right edge, the reverse inscribed "Likeness of/Thomas Wright/lost at sea/1835," in an ebony frame with copper liner, ht. 5, wd. 4 3/8 in.
Estimate $400-600


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