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Emma, Queen of Hawaii

Portrait Gallery

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Object Details

Attribution

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Sitter

Emma Rooke, 1836 - 1885

Exhibition Label

Born Honolulu, Hawaii
On May 6, 1865, less than a month after General Robert E. Lee’s surrender marked the end of the Civil War, Hawaii’s recently widowed Queen Emma embarked from Honolulu on a lengthy international tour. After an extended stay in England, where she met with Queen Victoria and raised funds for the construction of an Anglican cathedral in Honolulu, Queen Emma traveled to a host of European cities. In late July 1866, following a second visit to London and brief sojourn in Ireland, she sailed for New York City. As the first queen of any nation to visit the United States, she was welcomed with great fanfare that included a thirteen-gun salute when her ship docked on August 6. Warmly praised by the New York press, Queen Emma generated similar excite- ment when she traveled to Washington, D.C., where President Andrew Johnson feted her at a grand White House reception.
Nacida en Honolulu, Hawái
El 6 de mayo de 1865, a un mes escaso del fin de la Guerra Civil a raíz de la rendición del general Robert E. Lee, la reina Emma de Hawái, viuda recientemente, partió desde Honolulu en una extensa gira interna- cional. Luego de una dilatada estancia en Inglaterra, donde conoció a la reina Victoria y recaudó fondos para una catedral anglicana en Honolulu, Emma recorrió numerosas ciudades europeas. A fines de julio de 1866, luego de una segunda visita a Londres y una breve estancia en Irlanda, zarpó hacia Nueva York. Siendo la primera reina que visitaba Estados Unidos, Emma fue acogida con gran fanfarria, inclu-yendo un saludo de 13 cañonazos cuando arribó al muelle el 6 de agosto. La prensa neoyorquina la trató con efusión, y lo mismo sucedió cuando llegó a Washington, D.C., donde el presidente Andrew Johnson la agasajó con una recepción en la Casa Blanca.

Collection Description

The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the Mathew Brady photography studio in New York City. The collection, which the National Portrait Gallery acquired in 1981, includes portraits of generals, politicians, diplomats, painters, and performers. It also contains depictions of “Human Curiosities” at P. T. Barnum’s American Museum in New York City, that, although highly exploitative, help to document the historical representations of disability in the United States.
La Colección Frederick Hill Meserve contiene más de 5,000 negativos de retratos de la época de la Guerra Civil provenientes del estudio fotográfico de Mathew Brady en la ciudad de Nueva York. Adquirida por la National Portrait Gallery en 1981, la colección incluye retratos de militares, políticos, diplomáticos y artistas. También contiene imágenes de “curiosidades humanas” exhibidas en el American Museum de P.T. Barnum en Nueva York. Estas últimas, a pesar de su índole degradante, nos ayudan a documentar la representación histórica de las personas discapacitadas en EE.UU.

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection

Date

1866

Object number

NPG.81.M704

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

Photographic Negative

Medium

Glass plate collodion negative

Dimensions

Image: 9.3 × 5.7 cm (3 11/16 × 2 1/4")
Sheet: 12.8 × 10.2 cm (5 1/16 × 4")

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Location

Currently not on view

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Costume\Jewelry
Costume\Jewelry\Necklace
Costume\Jewelry\Earring
Interior
Costume\Jewelry\Chain
Costume\Jewelry\Pendant
Costume\Headgear\Veil
Costume\Dress Accessory\Belt
Emma Rooke: Female
Emma Rooke: Politics and Government\Ruler\Queen
Portrait

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4b355c277-379e-416c-8cdc-6ed97db941f6

Record ID

npg_NPG.81.M704

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