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American 19th Century

Portrait of a Soldier, 1860s

Not on View

Medium

ambrotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 7 × 5.9 cm (2 3/4 × 2 5/16 in.)
mat: 8.2 × 7 cm (3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
case (closed): 9.5 × 8.5 × 2.5 cm (3 3/4 × 3 3/8 × 1 in.)

Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

Accession Number

2013.49.5

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

on recto and verso of thermoplastic case, center molded: CONSTITUTION / AND THE / LAWS

Provenance

(Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London); NGA purchase, 2013.

Associated Names

Quaritch Ltd., Bernard

Exhibition History

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

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