# Colonel Elijah Rice, in Miniatures of the 19th century

John Wood Dodge painted this in 1839, aged 32. It is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

From the museum's label:

> Colonel Elijah Rice invested heavily in sugar cane in Cuba, as a thriving part of the slave trade before the Civil War. His life ended in tragedy when he and all but one of his fourteen children died of consumption in Cuba.

_Text from the Smithsonian American Art Museum._

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## The work

- Date: 1839
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Dimensions: image: sight 2 1/2 x 2 in. (6.4 x 5.2 cm) oval
- Type: Painting-Miniature
- Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1973.40
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[John Wood Dodge](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/john-wood-dodge), born New York City 1807-died Pomona, TN 1893

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