Portrait of a Woman, c. 1845

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 9.1 × 6.7 cm (3 9/16 × 2 5/8 in.)
mat: 11.1 × 8.5 cm (4 3/8 × 3 3/8 in.)
case (closed): 12.3 × 9.7 × 1.5 cm (4 13/16 × 3 13/16 × 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

Accession Number

2013.49.2

Artists / Makers

Beard's Photographic Institutions (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso of case, center stamped in gilt: BEARD’S PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONS / 85 KING WILLIAM STREET / 34 PARLIAMENT ST / AND THE ROYAL / POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION / LONDON / AND / 34 CHURCH STREET LIVERPOOL

Provenance

Margaret Harker, Sussex, England; (sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 1979); (Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London); NGA purchase, 2013.

Associated Names

Quaritch Ltd., Bernard