Portrait of General Keith MacAlister
c. 1800–1810
John I Smart
John I Smart (British, 1741–1811)
Drawings
Portrait of General Keith MacAlister, c. 1800–1810. John I Smart (British, 1741–1811). Watercolor and graphite, heightened with traces of white gouache, on paper; sheet: 17.4 x 14 cm (6 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.); image: 13.2 x 11.4 cm (5 3/16 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.77 Sketches helped John Smart work out the particulars of a portrait before commencing the miniature on ivory; they were useful in the event that a duplicate might later be required.
- Maker/Artist
- Smart, John I
- Classification
- Portrait Miniature
- Formatted Medium
- watercolor and graphite, heightened with traces of white gouache, on paper
- Medium
- watercolor, graphite, heightened, traces, white, gouache, paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 17.4 x 14 cm (6 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.); Image: 13.2 x 11.4 cm (5 3/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: across bottom, in graphite: Genl Macalester ; VERSO, center, in graphite: 169; lower left, in graphite: l. 159. [circled]
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1997.77
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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