Accession Number
2008/2.196.10

Title
Commander Robert H. Wyman

Artist(s)

Object Creation Date
circa 1862-1865

Medium & Support
albumen print on paper

Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Seymour and Barbara K. Adelson

Subject matter
In this photograph, United States Navy Commander Richard Wyman stands rigidly with one arm behind his back and the other tucked into the breast of his frock coat. His glassy eyes gaze indirectly out of the picture plane. A table with a book, a chair, and a curtain surround the naval officer in the background and signal a somewhat generic, bourgeois interior space. This photograph was originally produced by the studio of Mathew Brady, who made a large number of such cartes-de-visite of Union Army and Navy officers during the American Civil War (1861-65).

Physical Description
Full-length portrait of a man in military uniform in an interior studio space. 

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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Keywords
armed forces
dress swords
frock coats
moustaches
officers (administrators)
portraits