Collection Highlights
Wedding dress: yellow brocade with lace
1730-50 with several alterations into the 20th century
1949.115a
Silk brocade, needlepoint lace; silk chiffon
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Baltimore News Vendor
Title
Baltimore News Vendor
Date
1860
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 24 1/8 x 15 1/8 in. ( 61.3 x 38.4 cm )
frame: 32 x 23 1/4 x 3 in. (32 x 23 1/4 x 3 in.)
Description
African-American male figure selling copies of the newspaper, the Patriot, a Baltimore newspaper that favored the South's stance on slavery and states' rights.
Credit Line
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, on permanent loan from the New York Public Library
Object Number
S-30
Gallery Label
Cafferty copied this painting from the original by Thomas Waterman Wood at the request of Robert L. Stuart. Although, the newspaper vendor in this photograph, Moses, was an urban freeman in Baltimore, his choice of career was limited by "Black Codes", laws that prohibited entry into certain professions and limited ownership of businesses.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
