Collection Highlights
Dragonfly Table lamp
c. 1900-1906
N84.113
Glass, bronze
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Luce Center
"The Much Lov'd Sea-Boy Sleeps", Folio no.18 in the John Ludlow Morton Album
Title
"The Much Lov'd Sea-Boy Sleeps", Folio no.18 in the John Ludlow Morton Album
Date
1827
Medium
Brown ink and wash and graphite on paper, bound into album
Dimensions
8 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.
Description
Genre
Credit Line
Bequest of Emily Ellison Post
Object Number
1944.371
Inscriptions
Signed and inscribed at right middle: "H. Inman 1827"; below at center: "'Far, far from home, on Peru's desert strand, / The much lov'd sea-boy sleeps; fancy still hears / His drowning death-shriek in the sea-bird's scream, / His funeral dirge in ocean's sullen roar!'"
Gallery Label
This portrait is attributed to Henry Inman on stylistic grounds; the date is assigned on the basis of the design of the coat and because Inman at the time was executing similar small portraits.
Provenance
John Ludlow Morton, New York City; Harriet E. Morton Ellison; Emily Ellison Post, Jackson Heights, New York City
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subj