Artwork overview
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Medium
ambrotype with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (visible): 7 × 5.9 cm (2 3/4 × 2 5/16 in.)
mat: 8.2 × 7 cm (3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
case (closed): 9.5 × 8.5 × 2.5 cm (3 3/4 × 3 3/8 × 1 in.) -
Accession Number
2013.49.5
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 recto and verso of thermoplastic case, center molded: CONSTITUTION / AND THE / LAWS
Wikidata ID
Q64144688