H.M.S. Dauntless at Anchor in Carlisle Bay, Barbados, January 1853

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype

Dimensions

image (visible): 6.5 × 8.9 cm (2 9/16 × 3 1/2 in.)
mat: 7.6 × 10.1 cm (3 × 4 in.)
case (closed): 9.4 × 11.9 cm (3 11/16 × 4 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Accession Number

2007.29.2

Artists / Makers

Unknown 19th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

on velvet lining inside of case, by unknown hand, center in black ink on applied label: H.M. S. Dauntless [underlined] / at anchor in Carlisle / bay Barbados. / Jany. 1853.

Provenance

Werner Bokelberg; Howard and Jane Ricketts, London; NGA purchase (through Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc.), 2007.

Associated Names

Kraus, Jr., Inc., Hans P.

Exhibition History

2009: In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009 - 2010, unnumbered catalogue.