Content/DescriptionThree-quarter length seated portrait of bearded man holding a book.
Title
[George Bancroft]
Published
October 5, 1880
Full Collection Name
Framed items from the collections of The Bancroft Library
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 19xx.500:040--FR
Type
Image
Extent
1 photograph (of painting): silver gelatin ; visible image 47.5 x 32.9 cm, accompanying note 21.7 x 10.3 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Painted signature (reproduced in image LR): Gustav Richter. Blind stamp (image LR): Photogh Patsche / Berlin / Gesellschaft. Accompanying note (LC on mat): Dear Senator / except this shadow of an / old man in testimony of / sincere respect and regard / Geo. Bancroft / Oct. 5. 80. / 27 April 1881-. Copy of letter from Mr. Ralph M. Dyar to Mrs. Eleanor Bancroft regarding donation of picture (of George Bancroft).
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