Digital facsimile includes full reproductions of rectos and partial reproductions of versos which contain notations. Blank portions of versos not digitized.
Full-length portrait of a woman, likely to be Mary Anne Clarke, wearing a white neoclassical dress and standing on a balcony with a curtain drapped from the left corner
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left: Adam Buck, London 1804., Identity of the sitter based on the known partronage of Adam Buck by both Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, and his mistress Mary Anne Clarke. In addition, there exist other examples of similar portraits of Clarke by Buck., and Removed from frame, which is stored separately in LSF Bin 14.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 2
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
