Silhouette picture of Captain Jeremiah Coghlan (1775?-1844). A bronzed sihouette on a white plaster ground showing the sitter in naval uniform. In an oval, gilt-mounted, glazed miniature frame with a rectangular, ebonized wood surround. The original maker's label is on the back. 'Captn Coghlan RN' written in ink on the back. A printed label on the reverse: 'Miers & Field, 111 Strand, London (opposite Exeter Change), Profile Painters, Jewellers, Seal engravers, and manufacturers of every description of miniature frames, cases etc. continue to execute their long approved profile likenesses in a superior style of elegance and with that unequalled degree of accuracy as to retain the most animated resemblance and character even in the most minute sizes of rings, brooches, lockets etc. (Time of sitting not exceeding five minutes). Messrs Miers & Field preserve all the original shades, by which they can at any period furnish copies without the necessity of sitting again.'