Amory Nelson Hardy (Carmel, Maine, 1834 - 1911, Somerville, Massachusetts)
Thomas Russell Sullivan, 1891
Albumen print on card, 16.4 x 10.8 cm (6 7/16 x 4 1/4 in.)
This vertical rectangular photograph is a bust portrait of Thomas Russell Sullivan. The print is sepia toned, shown in various shades of brown. The figure is shown from the top of his head to the top of his chest. He has medium-light skin with medium-brown hair, eyebrows, and mustache. The figure gazes forward but just to the left of the viewer. His hair is parted in the center and swept back. He has light eyes, a long nose with diagonal creases in his cheeks, and a rounded chin. His full handlebar mustache sits low on his face, right under his nose and covering much of his mouth and lower cheeks with the ends slightly curved upward. He wears a white dress shirt, a dark tie with white spots, and a suit jacket buttoned up high. Inscribed in ink in the lower corner to our right is a signature and date.
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Commentary
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