Portrait of Two Boys
1850s
Artist, British, 1818 - 1891

Artwork overview
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Medium
stereoscopic daguerreotypes with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (each): 6.1 × 4.5 cm (2 3/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
framed: 8 × 11.5 × 0.9 cm (3 1/8 × 4 1/2 × 3/8 in.)
case (closed): 9.2 × 13.2 × 1.8 cm (3 5/8 × 5 3/16 × 11/16 in.) -
Accession
2013.49.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London); NGA purchase, 2013.
Associated Names
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.
Inscriptions
on cover of daguerreotype case, center, blind stamped in leather: BY APPOINTMENT / [seal of Royal Warrant] / Mr. KILBURN / 234 REGENT STREET; on viewing panel, along bottom, stamped in gilt: KILBURN'S STEREOSCOPE, / REGd 12th JANY 1853. / BRÈVETÉ À PARIS.
Wikidata ID
Q64171139