Sojourner Truth

1864

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen print (carte-de-visite)

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 8.6 × 5.9 cm (3 3/8 × 2 5/16 in.)
    mount: 9.9 × 6.2 cm (3 7/8 × 2 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.19.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Greg French, Jamaica Plain, MA) purchased 2013; NGA purchase, 2014.

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.

Inscriptions

lower center on mount printed in red ink: I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. / SOJOURNER TRUTH.; on verso, center printed in red ink: Entered according to the act of Con- / gress, in the year 1864, by Sojourner / Truth, in the Clerk's Office, of the U.S. / District Court, for the Eastern District / of Michigan.

Wikidata ID

Q64144720

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