Carved marble self-portrait bust by Larkin Mead. Mead wears a suit jacket, buttoned vest, and a shirt with a tall collar and textured silk-like bowtie. Mead's short hair is combed neatly back from his face and his mustache and goatee also appear combed and styled. The bust rests on a short columnar base with turned and flared top and base edges.
Artwork Details
Medium
Marble
Subject Person
Mead, Larkin Goldsmith (1835-1910)
Acquisition
Accession
2024.6
Source or Donor
Brooks Memorial Library
Acquisition Method
Gift
Made/Created
Artist
Mead, Larkin Goldsmith (1835-1910)
Date made
1900 - 1910
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Bust
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Sculpture
Nomenclature Class
Art
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Dimensions
Dimension Description
overall dimensions; width measured across shoulders, depth from back lying face-up to tip of nose; diameter measured for the base. KFG 5/2024
