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Description: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Izard (Alice Delancey)

TitleMr. and Mrs. Ralph Izard (Alice Delancey)

Creator nameCopley, John Singleton

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1775

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions68 3/4 × 88 in. (174.6 × 223.5 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/mr-and-mrs-ralph-izard-alice-delancey-31228

Accession number03.1033

SubjectsCouples in artColosseum (Rome, Italy)Clothing and dress in artPortrait painting, American--18th century

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5. Destroying Portraits

Jennifer Van Horn

Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery

~Picture the scene in Charleston, South Carolina, sometime between the summer of 1863 and the winter of 1865. South Carolina had seceded from the United States two...

Author

Jennifer Van Horn

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.218-261

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00354.6

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Chapter subject tags:Portrait painting, AmericanIconoclasmGenealogySlaves--Emancipation

2. The Colosseum: Ambiguities of Empire

William L. Vance

America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome

~This is one of many juxtapositions in nineteenth-century American literature and painting of a representative American character and a classical architectural image, of which the Colosseum is by far the most commonly chosen. The Colosseum had by this time a complex...

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William L. Vance

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.43-67

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00010.007

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Chapter subject tags:Colosseum (Rome, Italy)United States--Civilization--Roman influencesAmerican literature--19th centuryJames, Henry, 1843-1916Painting, American--19th centuryCole, Thomas, 1801-1848Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904Artists--Travel--Italy--RomeHawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864Rome (Italy)--In literature

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