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Colonel Elijah Rice

1839
watercolor on ivory
image: sight 2 1/2 x 2 in. (6.4 x 5.2 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Colonel Elijah Rice invested heavily in sugar cane in Cuba, as a thriving part of the slave trade before the Civil War. His life ended in tragedy when he and all but one of his fourteen children died of consumption in Cuba. His widow, with her surviving daughter, Amanda, returned to Huntsville, Alabama, where John Wood Dodge painted this piece. The...
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Edward S. Dodge

1835
Watercolor on ivory
3 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (9.5 x 8.2 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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George Catlin

1835
Watercolor on ivory
2 3/16 x 1 13/16 in. (5.6 x 4.6 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Henry Augustus Coit

1838
watercolor on ivory
sight 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. (7.0 x 5.7 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Henry Augustus Coit (born 1800) lived in Cuba as a young man, and for over twenty years, invested in the sugar trade along with his partner, Moses Taylor III. Coit was fluent in Spanish and moved easily in Cuban society. Having made a fortune in the sugar trade, he maintained palatial homes in Havana, Dobbs Ferry, and Saratoga Springs, New York,...
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Isaac F. Tyson

1835
watercolor on ivory
sight 2 1/2 x 2 in. (6.4 x 5.1 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
According to an inscription on the original mount, this miniature was painted while John Wood Dodge was in New York. Little is known about Isaac F. Tysen, except that in 1880 he was a resident of Staten Island, New York.
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Isaac John Greenwood I

1832
Watercolor on ivory
Overall: 2 1/8 x 1 11/16 in. ( 5.4 x 4.3 cm )

New York Historical Society

New York, NY

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The subject was born in New York, the son of John and Elizabeth (Weaver) Greenwood. He turned to his father's profession, dentistry, in 1818, from which he retired in 1829, at the end of a distinguished career.
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James O. Owens

1832
Watercolor on ivory in gilded copper locket
2 5/16 x 1 7/8 in. (5.9 x 4.8 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Kate Roselie Dodge

1854
Watercolor on ivory in ormolu mat
Sight: 3 x 2 1/2 in. (7.6 x 6.4 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Miss Major

1835
watercolor on ivory
2 5/8 x 2 3/16 in. (6.7 x 5.6 cm)

Cincinnati Art Museum

Cincinnati, OH

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Mordecai Manuel Noah

1834
watercolor on ivory
sight 3 1/8 x 2 5/8 in. (7.9 x 6.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851) was possibly the most influential Jewish figure in the United States during the early nineteenth century. He was a lawyer, journalist, playwright, politician, judge, editor, and surveyor. As a patriot, he supported Americas war with Britain in 1812, and became the United States consul to Tunis. He studied law in South...
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