Portrait of John Haslett, M.D.

• Artist: Eliab Metcalf
• Medium: Watercolor on ivory portrait, printed business card (backing paper), and brass liner and lens
• Dates: ca. 1822
• Dimensions: Image: 3 x 2 5/16 in. (7.6 x 5.9 cm) Backing Card: 3 x 2 3/8 in. (7.6 x 6 cm) Liner & lens: 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (8.3 x 7 cm)
• Signature: Unsigned
• Inscriptions: Artist's business card, used for backing the portrait: image of putto holding a banner on which is printed "E. METCALF, PORTRAIT & MINIATURE PAINTER." and written in script "Broadway, / No. 152."
• Collection: American Art
• Museum Location: Brooklyn Museum, BMA, 5Q12-LUCE, Unit 47, Dwr. A
• Accession Number: 20.962
• Image: 20.962_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, Nov 30, 2008

Catalogue Description:
This object is a disassembled miniature consisting of: the portrait (watercolor on an oval sheet of ivory glued to paper), backing paper cut from the artist's business card, and the metal liner and glass lens which were part of the now-lost original housing (most likely, a locket). There is a faint graphite tracing of the sitter's head and an illegible inscription on the verso of the portrait.