Our Pastor's Circle
c. 1855
Tyler & Co., John Plumbe Jr.
Artist, American, active 1850s
Artist, American, born Wales, 1809 - 1857
Artwork overview
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Medium
24 daguerreotypes with applied color
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Credit Line
W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg and Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund
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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.) -
Accession Number
2009.49.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc., New York); NGA purchase, 2009.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2017
Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.
Inscriptions
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.
Wikidata ID
Q64155556