John Ashworth, Edmund Ashworth, Edmund Ashworth, Jr.

1848

British 19th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 8.6 × 6.3 cm (3 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
    mat: 10.1 × 7.7 cm (4 × 3 1/16 in.)
    case (closed): 11 × 8.1 × 1.8 cm (4 5/16 × 3 3/16 × 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.1.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ashworth Family, England; (sale, England, 2017); (Jason Wright, Huddersfield, England); NGA purchase, 2019.

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.

Inscriptions

on silk lining inside of case, by unknown hand, upper center in black ink on applied paper: 3 Generations of Ashworth [underlined] / John Ashworth, Birtenshaw / Edmund Ashworth Egerton Hall / Edmund Ashworth Jr Egerton Hall / Taken 1848 Bolton

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