id:			162746
accession number:	2003.285.a
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.285.a
updated:		2022-01-04 17:32:29.974000

Walking Stick of Moses Seymour, 1774. America, 18th century. Wood and metal; overall: 96.8 cm (38 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. George S. Lockwood, Jr. in loving memory of her husband 2003.285.a

title:				Walking Stick of Moses Seymour
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creation date:			1774
creation date earliest:		1774
creation date latest:		1774
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creditline:			Gift of Mrs. George S. Lockwood, Jr. in loving memory of her husband
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culture:	America, 18th century
technique:	wood and metal
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Painting
type:		Miscellaneous
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 96.8 cm (38 1/8 in.)
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	inscription:	Entwined initials on top of handle; inscribed on edge: "Moses Seymour 1774"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	descended through Moses Seymour family to George S. Lockwood, Cleveland
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wall description: 
At the age of fifteen, Moses Seymour Jr., sat for a portrait that honors both its sitter and implicitly, his father, the former Revolutionary War major from Litchfield, Connecticut, who commissioned this work.  Like so many American painters of his generation, Earl studied with Benjamin West in London.  Upon his return, he practiced his profession in his native Connecticut River Valley.  Seymour's book and cane suggest that the young man reads and walks in harmony among nature's beauties, an activity that recalls the ideals of the ancient Roman poet Horace.  In a pose that presses him close to the foreground, however, this cultured figure also conveys a message about man's domination over nature.    The painting remained in the sitter's family until it was given to the museum.
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IMAGES

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