Samuel Colt, Elizabeth’s husband, in an engraving by Henry Wright Smith after a Mathew Brady photograph dated 1857. This reproduction appeared in George L. Clark’s 1914 history of Connecticut.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in United States; published before 1931. Original print source: A history of Connecticut: its people and institutions, George L. Clark, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1914; https://archive.org/details/historyofconnect03clar. Do not call supplied image a direct photographic print. Proportional resize and JPEG optimization only. Created: 1857 source portrait date; engraving date not separately established. Published: 1914 reproduction
Source: Henry Wright Smith, engraver, after Mathew Brady
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Silent Grounds Collective, Elmcrest Hospital & the Colt Connection, SGC-EC-016, EC-003, “Samuel Colt, engraving after Brady.” Source: Henry Wright Smith, engraver, after Mathew Brady. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Colt_by_Brady,_1857.jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.