Portrait of a Girl

late 1840s

William Edward Kilburn

Artist, British, 1818 - 1891

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 9.2 × 6.2 cm (3 5/8 × 2 7/16 in.)
    mat: 11 × 8.6 cm (4 5/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
    case (closed): 12.2 × 9.2 × 1.4 cm (4 13/16 × 3 5/8 × 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.86.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Skinner, Boston, 16 May 2014, no. 87, as Hand-tinted Quarter-plate Daguerreotype of a Girl); NGA purchase (through Greg French, Jamaica Plain, MA), 2014.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

Inscriptions

on case, center embossed: BY APPOINTMENT. / MR KILBURN. / 234 REGENT STREET

Wikidata ID

Q64170929

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