Jonathan Dwight

Joseph Steward

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jonathan Dwight (1743–1831) was the great-grandson of the esteemed Connecticut clergyman Jonathan Edwards. Steward’s rather unusual portrait provides a clear view of Dwight’s hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts, in the background and a striking marker of the sitter’s appearance: a large, hairy mole on his left cheek.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art