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Kamehameha the Great

Artist

Anonymous copyChinese

Date

about 1816–1817

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

9 7/8 x 8 1/16 in. (25.1 x 20.5 cm)

Description

After Louis Choris, Russian, 1795-1828

Inscription

Inscribed on bottom: TAMM AHAMMAHA

Credit Line

Gift of John Coffin Jones, Jr., 1818

Object Number

UR60