Portrait of a Mother and Child

c. 1850

Luther Holman Hale

Artist, American, 1823 - 1885

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 8.9 × 6.6 cm (3 1/2 × 2 5/8 in.)
    mat: 10.8 × 8.5 cm (4 1/4 × 3 3/8 in.)
    framed: 16.5 × 14 × 1.5 cm (6 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.180.2


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Greg French, Jamaica Plain, MA), 2010; NGA purchase, 2015.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on brass mat, bottom left embossed: HALE, ARTIST. / No. 109 WASH'N. ST / BOSTON.

Wikidata ID

Q64157644


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