Our Pastor's Circle, c. 1855

Not on View

Medium

24 daguerreotypes with applied color

Dimensions

image (each): 5.4 × 4.1 cm (2 1/8 × 1 5/8 in.)
mat (each): 6.4 × 5.1 cm (2 1/2 × 2 in.)
case (opened): 32.7 × 42.23 × 1.27 cm (12 7/8 × 16 5/8 × 1/2 in.)
case (closed): 32.7 × 12.11 × 2.54 cm (12 7/8 × 4 3/4 × 1 in.)

Credit Line

W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg and Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

Accession Number

2009.49.1

Artists / Makers

Tyler & Co. (artist) American, active 1850s

John Plumbe Jr. (artist) American, born Wales, 1809 - 1857

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

on verso, left panel, one of three printed cards backs each daguerreotype, [1]: From / TYLER & CO.'s / 25 CENT / DAGUERREOTYPE / ROOMS, / Cor. Winter & Washington Sts., / BOSTON.; [2]: Pictures taken for 25 Cents / AT THE / PLUMBE NATIONAL / DAGUERRIAN GALLERY, / No. 75 COURT STREET, / FOUNDED IN 1840. / The Oldest Establishment of the kind / in Boston / Pictures taken by Machinery by an / ENTIRE NEW PROCESS / Pictures taken in any weather.; [3]: BOSTON / PICTURE COMPANY. / TYLER & CO. / Cor. Winter & Washington Streets. / 500 Daguerreotypes Executed Daily / BY A NEW / GERMAN INVENTION AND MACHINERY, / AT THEIR / EXTENSIVE SKY-LIGHT / ROOMS.; on case, center printed in gold: OUR PASTORS CIRCLE.

Provenance

(Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc., New York); NGA purchase, 2009.

Associated Names

Isaacs, Charles, Mr.

Exhibition History

2017: Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.