Artwork overview
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Medium
daguerreotype with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (visible): 6.7 × 5.5 cm (2 5/8 × 2 3/16 in.)
mat: 8.4 × 7 cm (3 5/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
case: 9.4 × 8.2 × 1 cm (3 11/16 × 3 1/4 × 3/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2013.120.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Richard Look, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL; (Charles Schwartz, Ltd., New York), 2011; NGA purchase, 2013.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2017
Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.
Inscriptions
inside of case, by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: H. H. Brooks / Feb 7th 1853
Wikidata ID
Q64144695