Creator |
Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889. |
Title |
John Jay Smith. |
Date |
Ca. 1880 |
Physical Description |
Oil on canvas ; 42 x 34 inches ; Framed: 53 1/2 x 45 3/4 x (2 3/4+1 1/4) inches. |
Notes |
John Jay Smith was the Library Company's Librarian from 1829-Feb. 1851 and Treasurer from 1840-1857. |
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Painting is signed on the lower right. |
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Receipt for portrait, frame, and tablet for name, dated April 13, 83, in vol. 3 of John Jay Smith's Recollections-manuscript
copy [8442.F].
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LCP Minutes vol. 8, May 3, 1883, p. 474: "Mr. L.P. Smith, having in behalf of himself and his brothers Mssrs. Robert P. Smith
and Horace J. Smith, presented the Library Company with a portrait of the late John Jay Smith; the Secretary was directed
to thank the donors, for the very acceptable gift of the portrait of one who had so long and faithfully served the Library
Company."
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Gift of Lloyd Pearsall Smith on behalf of himself and his brothers, Robert P. and Horace J. Smith, 1883. |
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Exhibited in the Library Company's exhibition, Building a City of the Dead: The Creation and Expansion of Philadelphia’s Laurel
Hill Cemetery (2010-2011).
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Subject |
Smith, J. Jay (John Jay), 1798-1881 -- Portraits. |
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Library Company of Philadelphia. |
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Librarians -- Portraits. |
Genre |
Painting. |
Location |
OBJ 261 |
Accession number |
OBJ 261 |