Girl and Boy

1850s

McClees & Germon

Artist, American, 1846 - c. 1855

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    2 daguerreotypes with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (each, visible): 7 × 5.7 cm (2 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
    mat (each): 8.1 × 6.9 cm (3 3/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
    case (closed): 9 × 7.9 × 1.6 cm (3 9/16 × 3 1/8 × 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.145.14


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ezra Mack, New York); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 1990; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on each brass mat, bottom left embossed: McCLEES & GERMON; bottom right embossed: PHILA


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