Object Details
- distributor
- Needham, D.
- depicted
- Polk, James K.
- Polk, Sarah Childress
- Polk, Jane Knox
- Kelloggs & Comstock
- Description (Brief)
- Colored print; interior scene depicting Polk in his death bed surrounded by three men (One is probably a clergyman, one a doctor) and two women (his mother and wife). There is a cloth covered table beside the bed and heavy drapery in the background. Polk died of cholera.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- 1849
- ID Number
- DL.60.2553
- catalog number
- 60.2553
- accession number
- 228146
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 12 in x 8 1/2 in; 30.48 cm x 21.59 cm
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Hartford
- Related Publication
- Peters, Harry T.. America on Stone
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Clothing & Accessories
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Death
- U.S. National Government, executive branch
- Furnishings
- depicted
- Family
- Record ID
- nmah_324865
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-d023-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
