Our Pastor's Circle

c. 1855

Tyler & Co.

Artist, American, active 1850s

John Plumbe Jr.

Artist, American, born Wales, 1809 - 1857

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc., New York); NGA purchase, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2017

  • Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on verso, left panel, one of three printed cards backs each daguerreotype, [1]: From / TYLER & CO.'s / 25 CENT / DAGUERREOTYPE / ROOMS, / Cor. Winter & Washington Sts., / BOSTON.; [2]: Pictures taken for 25 Cents / AT THE / PLUMBE NATIONAL / DAGUERRIAN GALLERY, / No. 75 COURT STREET, / FOUNDED IN 1840. / The Oldest Establishment of the kind / in Boston / Pictures taken by Machinery by an / ENTIRE NEW PROCESS / Pictures taken in any weather.; [3]: BOSTON / PICTURE COMPANY. / TYLER & CO. / Cor. Winter & Washington Streets. / 500 Daguerreotypes Executed Daily / BY A NEW / GERMAN INVENTION AND MACHINERY, / AT THEIR / EXTENSIVE SKY-LIGHT / ROOMS.; on case, center printed in gold: OUR PASTORS CIRCLE.

Wikidata ID

Q64155556


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