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Artist
Unidentified Artist
Sitter
Carter Braxton, 10 Sep 1736 - 10 Oct 1797
Date
c. 1775
Type
Painting
Medium
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions
Frame: 6 x 4.1 x 0.8cm (2 3/8 x 1 5/8 x 5/16")
Topic
Miniature
Carter Braxton: Male
Carter Braxton: Politics and Government\Statesman\Colonial statesman\Signer of Declaration
Carter Braxton: Natural Resource Occupations\Agriculturist\Planter
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
NPG.98.33
Provenance
Douglas M. Braxton; his wife Frances T. Braxton [Mrs. Douglas M. Braxton]; their son James Philips Braxton, Richmond; her grandson Douglas M. Braxton II; purchased 1998 NPG