Portrait of a Girl, late 1840s

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 9.2 × 6.2 cm (3 5/8 × 2 7/16 in.)
mat: 11 × 8.6 cm (4 5/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
case (closed): 12.2 × 9.2 × 1.4 cm (4 13/16 × 3 5/8 × 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2014.86.3

Artists / Makers

William Edward Kilburn (artist) British, 1818 - 1891

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

on case, center embossed: BY APPOINTMENT. / MR KILBURN. / 234 REGENT STREET

Provenance

(sale, Skinner, Boston, 16 May 2014, no. 87, as Hand-tinted Quarter-plate Daguerreotype of a Girl); NGA purchase (through Greg French, Jamaica Plain, MA), 2014.

Associated Names

French, Greg

Exhibition History

2015: In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015