Artist/Maker
Francis Manley
Depicted
Joseph Converse Heywood
(1820 - 1900)
Joseph C. Heywood (1820–1900)
ca. 1872
Painted plaster; wood
Overall: 22 x 16 5/8 x 4 in. ( 55.9 x 42.2 x 10.2 cm )
Gift Mr. John Watts De Peyster
1873.20
Heywood was the author of three dramatic poems published in New York in 1867-68. He was also a lawyer and newspaper reporter and during the last decade of his life was private chamberlain (Camerlingo) to Pope Leo XIII.
DescriptionBas-relief portrait.InscribedInscribed in pencil on back: "S-31"
ClassificationsSCULPTURE