Wax portrait of Edmund Roberts, 1804-05

Object/Artifact

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Portsmouth Historical Society

Name/Title

Wax portrait of Edmund Roberts, 1804-05

Entry/Object ID

1936.01.15

Description

Bas relief portrait of Edmund Roberts (1784-1836). See object file Wax portrait, London, 1804-5. Possibly Paris Published in Toby Finnegan, "Encounters at Vung Lam: New Hampshire Businessman Edmund Roberts and America's First Diplomatic Negotiation with an Asian Country," Historical New Hampshire 70, no. 1 (spring 2017): 4. Copy in object file. Roberts wrote to his sister: Wax, he said, "is a beautiful mode of taking a likeness, but as such things are apt to do, mine, I think, rather flatters me."

Acquisition

Accession

1936.01

Source or Donor

Rice, Harriet Langdon Pruyn

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. William Gorham Rice

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Object is in a frame

Height

12-1/4 in

Width

11-1/8 in

Depth

3-1/16 in