. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 5.—Alvan Clark as an artist, painted by George Hollings- worth. This portrait, formerly owned by the Clarks, now hangs in the Harvard College Observatory. Courtesy Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Alvan Clark & Sons telescope business appeared lucrative enough to support his family. Alvan Clark was widely known as a sharpshooter as well as a portrait painter, and there are numerous legends of his marksmanship. With rifles and bullets of his own make he was able to "put bullet after bullet. Please note that these ima
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 5.—Alvan Clark as an artist, painted by George Hollings- worth. This portrait, formerly owned by the Clarks, now hangs in the Harvard College Observatory. Courtesy Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Alvan Clark & Sons telescope business appeared lucrative enough to support his family. Alvan Clark was widely known as a sharpshooter as well as a portrait painter, and there are numerous legends of his marksmanship. With rifles and bullets of his own make he was able to "put bullet after bullet. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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