Unidentified photographer (American) / John Mulvaney (1844-1906)
1863
Captain Thomas Scott, New York State Volunteers, wife and child

Salted paper print, with applied color
57.5 x 43 cm (image) 65 x 52 cm (mount)
 
George Eastman Museum
Purchase, 1975.0049.0001
 
recto (red ink): Jno. Mulvaney "artist 1863"
(typed note attached to verso of (replacement ?) mat: Captain Thomas Scott, 2nd. Regiment Artillery, New York State Volunteers. Watercolor by John Mulvaney. Signed and dated 1863. / John Mulvaney….1844-1906. Specialized in painting Western Indian, and army life. Best known for his 'Custer's Last Rally'. (From Fielding's 'Dictionary of American Painters'. / Accompanied by framed parchment of Captain Scott's commission dated 1864.
 
LL/70076