Height 83 1/2 in. by Width 19 in. by Depth 20 in.
Walters-Benisek Art and Antiques, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Ralph Session, The Shipcarvers' Art, Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America, (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005), pl. 104, p. 168, illus. in color.
Though a Captain in the army.
The highly skilled figure carver Thomas J. White worked for a time in the shop of the renowned Samuel Anderson Robb and is said to have used the master as his model for his several carvings of Captain Jinks. Other examples of White’s Captain Jinks are in the collections of the Newark Museum (New Jersey), the Shelburne Museum (Vermont), and the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian (Washington, D.C.), while a fourth was depicted for the Index of American Design.