Enoch Parsons
MakerMade by
William H. Brown
(American, 1808 - 1883)
SubjectPortrait of
Enoch Parsons
(American, 1769 - 1846)
Date1843
MediumSilhouette; cut paper with shadow pencil mounted on wove paper containing lithographic scene with ink wash, mounted on cardboard.
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (silhouette height x width): 14 1/4 x 2 7/8in. (36.2 x 7.3cm)
Sheet (height x width): 13 15/16 x 11 5/16in. (35.4 x 28.7cm)
Mount (height x width): 14 x 11 3/8in. (35.6 x 28.9cm)
Sheet (height x width): 13 15/16 x 11 5/16in. (35.4 x 28.7cm)
Mount (height x width): 14 x 11 3/8in. (35.6 x 28.9cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of William Henry Brown
Object number1843.34.6
DescriptionFull length silhouette portrait of a man facing right. He is wearing a coat and trousers and has a top hat on his head. He holds a cane in both hands with the tip pointing downward firmly pressed on the ground. He stands in the bend of a dirt road with the trunk of a tree behind him. A river or lake and hills or mountains are in the background.
NotesSubject Note: Enoch Parsons (1769-1846) was appointed Governor of the Northwestern Territory and Registrar and Clerk of the first Probate Court in Ohio in 1789, at only nineteen years of age. He later resigned and returned to Connecticut. At age twenty-one, Parsons was appointed High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Connecticut; he remained in that postion for about twenty-eight years. Enoch Parsons was the President of the Middletown and Hartford Branch of the Bank of the United States between 1818-1824; he held the post again later, until the Charter expired. He was also a frequent member of the Legislature.Status
Not on view
