Christopher Gadsden
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Description:
Oil on canvas full length portrait of Christopher Gadsden, standing, wearing a blue coat over a white satin waistcoat. Theus depicted his subject mostly bald with a ponytail tied in a ribbon. He holds a cane in his right hand and a tri-cornered hat is tucked under the left arm. Currently on display in the Heyward-Washington House.
- Title: Christopher Gadsden
- Creator: Theus, Jeremiah, 1716-1774
- Date: 1760-1774
- Culture: American
- School: Realism
- Dimensions: H-56 W-46 D-4 inches
- Collection: Fine Art Collection
- Object Name: Portraits
- Other Name: Work on canvas
- Object Id: 2007.43.1
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