Portrait of Two Boys

1850s

William Edward Kilburn

Artist, British, 1818 - 1891

William Edward Kilburn

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    stereoscopic daguerreotypes with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

  • 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 Number

    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

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