Edmund and Charlotte Ashworth and Family at Egerton Hall

c. 1846–1847

British 19th Century

Associated Names
The image depicts a group portrait of eleven individuals. There are eight individuals standing at the back and three people seated in the front. At the center is a woman with a child on her lap and two more children around her. The adults are positioned around them in the back. The man standing behind the woman is dressed formally in a dark jacket, white shirt, and a bow tie. The woman wears a bonnet, and each child wears long-sleeved dresses. One of the standing men holds a small book. The boys and men wear dark suits with white collars. The background shows a stone wall and a window. The image is framed with a decorative blue border.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 7 × 9.2 cm (2 3/4 × 3 5/8 in.)
    mat: 8 × 10.6 cm (3 1/8 × 4 3/16 in.)
    overall: 9.8 × 11.4 × 0.5 cm (3 7/8 × 4 1/2 × 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.1.22


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.


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