Portrait of a Woman and Two Girls, 1850s

Not on View

Medium

ambrotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 8.89 × 6.35 cm (3 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
mat: 10.8 × 8.26 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
case (closed): 9.37 × 11.75 × 1.91 cm (3 11/16 × 4 5/8 × 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

Accession Number

2008.79.3

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Provenance

(Charles Schwartz Ltd., New York); NGA purchase, 2008.

Associated Names

Schwartz, Ltd., Charles

Exhibition History

2009: In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009 - 2010, unnumbered catalogue.

2019: The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.