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Elisha Kent Kane, M.D. (1820-1857)
Title
Elisha Kent Kane, M.D. (1820-1857)
Date
1858
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 42 x 51 in. ( 106.7 x 129.5 cm )
frame: 49 x 58 in. ( 124.5 x 147.3 cm )
Credit Line
Gift of several ladies of New York
Object Number
1859.1
Marks
signature and date:
Gallery Label
Dr. Kane, famous Arctic explorer, was born in Philadelphia to John Kintzing Kane and Jane Duval (Leiper) Kane. His world travels began with his assignments to medical missions in China and in Africa. He served in the Mexican War in which he was wounded and contracted typhus, but by 1850 he had returned to duty with an expedition sent to the Arctic to search for a missing British explorer. The story of this journey is told in "The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin" (1853).
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
