Portrait miniature of John W. Griggs
date: label: date made
content: 1895-1900
name: label: maker
content: Fox, C. J.
notes: label: Description
content: Oval bust-length portrait of an older man with hazel eyes and gray hair in formal dress, turned and looking to the viewer's left. He wears a white wingtip collar and white knotted tie beneath a black coat embellished with a red and blue lapel pin. Brown background; light is from right. Signed at lower right. Housing includes a shallow convex lens, gold fillet or liner, and case with post-and-ring hanger; case reverse is plain. Hangs in a red velvet-covered display frame fitted to hold eight miniatures, 1989.0343.16-.23.
label: Description
content: Artist is C. F. Fox. Miniature is a hand-painted offset lithograph on ivory; image was probably made from a photograph taken of Griggs while governor or attorney general.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: United States, Eastern
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Elizabeth G. Cooke
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0343.22
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0343.22
label: accession number
content: 1989.0343
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Portrait
label: Object Name
content: painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: watercolor (painting material)
label: Physical Description
content: offset lithograph (painting production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (painting material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (lens material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (fillet or liner material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 cm; x 1 9/16 in