[Captain Thomas Scott, New York State Volunteers, wife and child]

[Captain Thomas Scott, New York State Volunteers, wife and child]

Photograph

John Mulvaney

Maker
American, 1844–1906

[Captain Thomas Scott, New York State Volunteers, wife and child]

1863
Salted paper print with applied color
Image: 57.5 x 43 cm
Mount: 65 x 52 cm
Frame: 81.5 x 66 cm
Purchase
1975.0049.0001
Inscriptions recto (red ink): Jno. Mulvaney "artist 1863"
(typed note attached to verso of (replacement ?) mat: Captain Thomas Scott, 2nd. Regiment Artillery, New York State Volunteers. Watercolor by John Mulvaney. Signed and dated 1863. / John Mulvaney....1844-1906. Specialized in painting Western Indian, and army life. Best known for his 'Custer's Last Rally'. (From Fielding's 'Dictionary of American Painters'. / Accompanied by framed parchment of Captain Scott's commission dated 1864.
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