Titled A Negro smoking a pipe, this oil painting of an unidentified man is by an unknown artist; area unknown. Subject is smoking a long stemmed white clay pipe, a very common item throughout the New World colonies. CWF identifies the painting as English, but the location of the painting is not given in the CWF files (slide courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, image DS 91-168).
Man Smoking a Pipe, ca. 1800-1825
SI-OB-523
Man Smoking a Pipe, ca. 1800-1825
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, image DS 91-168
English
Portraits & Illustrations of Individuals
North America
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
18-Mar-16
NW0153