Portrait of a Family

c. 1855

Jeremiah Gurney

Associated Names
Jeremiah Gurney

Artist, American, 1812 - 1895

The image is a Victorian-era family portrait featuring four members. The father is seated in the center, while the mother stands to his left holding a young child's hand. A young boy stands to the father's right. The father has styled hair with sideburns and wears a suit with a bow tie. The mother has a center-parted hairstyle and wears a dress with lace-trimmed shoulders. The standing boy wears a dark suit with a bow tie, and the young child is dressed in a puffy-sleeved dress. The family is adorned with a large brooch worn by the mother. The background is plain and dark, and the image is housed in an ornate frame with a decorative border.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype

  • Credit Line

    Chris and Roger Taylor Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 16 × 12.5 cm (6 5/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
    mat: 18.4 × 15.1 cm (7 1/4 × 5 15/16 in.)
    case (closed): 19.6 × 16.6 × 2.3 cm (7 11/16 × 6 9/16 × 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2010.59.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, New Haven, CT); NGA purchase, 2010.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on brass mat, lower right embossed: JGURNEY / 189 Broadway NY; on top edge of case, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite on applied label: IC728

Wikidata ID

Q64155623

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