Jacob Dolson Cox

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Artist/Maker	Brady, Mathew B. (photographer)
Place of origin	United States (photographed)

Carte-de-visite depicting a portrait of Jacob Dolson Cox (Jr) (1828-1900), an American statesman, lawyer and General of the Union Army who served as Secretary of the Interior under President Ulysses S. Grant.

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Categories	Photographs Portraits The Royal Photographic Society RPS Digitisation Project
Object type	Photograph
Title	Jacob Dolson Cox (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Albumen photograph mounted on card. Photographic Paper Albumen Process Photography
Brief description	Photograph by Mathew Brady, Portrait of Jacob Dolson Cox, albumen print, c. 1864.
Physical description	Carte-de-visite depicting a portrait of Jacob Dolson Cox (Jr) (1828-1900), an American statesman, lawyer and General of the Union Army who served as Secretary of the Interior under President Ulysses S. Grant.
Dimensions	Image height: 93mm Image width: 55mm Card height: 105mm Card width: 62mm
Marks and inscriptions	BRADY'S / National Photographic Portrait / GALLERIES / Broadway and 10th St, New York / 352 Pennsylvania Avenue / Washington, D.C. (Printed on verso as part of logo.) Cox / Secty of Interior (Handwritten on verso in pencil.) USA (Handwritten on verso in ink.)
Credit line	The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.
Associated object	PROV.5859-2017 (RPS Group record)
Other numbers	XRG302 - RPS collection - V&A identifier RPS.W.185 - RPS identifier - misc.
Collection	Department of Photography
Accession number	RPS.2072-2017

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Record created	August 8, 2017
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1408416/jacob-dolson-cox-photograph-brady-mathew-b/

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