Attributed to
Benjamin Tappan
(1773 - 1857)
Icabod Skinner
1793
Gray wash and graphite on beige paper
Sheet: 12 5/8 x 7 1/4 in. ( 32.1 x 18.4 cm )
Gift of John K. Wright, 1945
Z.2417
This profile portrait is one of about two dozen found among the papers of Benjamin Tappan, great-grandfather of the donor.
DescriptionSilhouette: Life-size (?) right-facing profile of male subject; ink wash within outline in graphite on paper with handwritten description below.InscribedInscribed at lower center in brown ink: "Mr Icabod Skinner New Haven / 1793 Itinerant Priest"
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
