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Richard Cosway, Portrait of Captain George Montgomery at 21, 1789, watercolor on ivory, 2 3/16 x 2 in. (5.7 x 5 cm), Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, 1966.0015
Richard Cosway, Portrait of Captain George Montgomery at 21 (verso), 1789, watercolor on ivory, 2 3/16 x 2 in. (5.7 x 5 cm), Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, 1966.0015
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Richard Cosway, Portrait of Captain George Montgomery at 21, 1789

Artist Richard Cosway (English, 1742–1821)
Title Portrait of Captain George Montgomery at 21
Object Date 1789
Medium Watercolor on ivory
Setting Brass frame with twisted rope motif
Dimensions 2 3/16 x 2 in. (5.7 x 5 cm)
Inscription Inscribed on case verso: “Capt / George Montgomery / At 21 / 1789”
Credit Line Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, 1966.0015

doi: 10.37764/8322.5.4602

Artist's Biography

See the artist’s biography in volume 4.

Provenance

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1966;

Their gift to The Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1966.

Exhibitions

From the Collection of the University of Kansas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 15–June 13, 1971.

Alumni Gifts to the University of Kansas Museum of Art, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, May 6–June 3, 1973.

References

Register of the Museum of Art [University of Kansas Museum of Art] 3, no. 7 (Winter 1966).

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Richard Cosway, Portrait of Captain George Montgomery at 21, 1789, watercolor on ivory, 2 3/16 x 2 in. (5.7 x 5 cm), Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, 1966.0015
Richard Cosway, Portrait of Captain George Montgomery at 21 (verso), 1789, watercolor on ivory, 2 3/16 x 2 in. (5.7 x 5 cm), Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, 1966.0015
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