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Samuel Finley Breese Morse: Visual Arts\Artist\Painter
Samuel Finley Breese Morse: Visual Arts\Artist\Portraitist
Samuel Finley Breese Morse: Journalism and Media\Journalist
Samuel Finley Breese Morse: Visual Arts\Art instructor
Samuel Finley Breese Morse: Education and Scholarship\Founder\College
Samuel Finley Breese Morse: Science and Technology\Inventor
Samuel Finley Breese Morse: Science and Technology\Inventor\Telegraph
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Museum of American History; gift of the Telegraphic Historical Society of North America
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
NPG.71.23
Provenance
The Telegraphic Historical Society of North America, Washington, D.C.; gift 1896 to National Museum [Smithsonian]; transferred 1971 to NPG.