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The Commodore Nutt Polka

Artist: Crow, Thomas & Eno Lithographic Company
Copy after: D. Appleton & Company, active c. 1850 - 1870
Publisher: Horace Waters, ? - 1893
Sitter: George Washington Morrison Nutt, 01 Apr 1848 - 25 May 1881; P. T. Barnum, 5 Jul 1810 - 7 Apr 1891

Date: 1862

Type: Print

Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Dimensions: Image: 28.1cm x 23.6cm (11 1/16" x 9 5/16"); Sheet: 33.9cm x 26cm (13 3/8" x 10 1/4")

Topic: Costume\Headgear\Hat; Costume\Headgear\Hat\Tricorne; Sheet music; P. T. Barnum: Male; P. T. Barnum: Performing Arts\Performer\Showman; P. T. Barnum: Performing Arts\Circus owner; P. T. Barnum: Society and Social Change\Administrator\Cultural organization administrator\Museum; George Washington Morrison Nutt: Male; George Washington Morrison Nutt: Performing Arts\Performer\Entertainer; George Washington Morrison Nutt: Society and Social Change\Person with a Disability\Dwarfism; Portrait

Place: United States\New York\Kings\New York

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Restrictions & Rights: CC0

Object number: NPG.95.43

Data Source: National Portrait Gallery