McAllister's Optical Shop, Philadelphia

December 12, 1854

Frederick DeBourg Richards

Artist, American, 1822 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Ph.D

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.9 × 13.7 cm (7 3/8 × 5 3/8 in.)
    case (closed): 23 × 18 × 2.3 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/16 × 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.191.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marion S. Carson, Philadelphia; Joe Buberger, CT; Janos Novomeszky, Hungary; Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Collection, New York, 2001; gift to NGA, 2017.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q64147713

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