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American 19th Century

Portrait of a Girl Postmortem, c. 1850

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Medium

daguerreotype

Dimensions

image: 6 × 8.2 cm (2 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
case (closed): 12 × 9.4 × 1.7 cm (4 3/4 × 3 11/16 × 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

Accession Number

2017.36.1

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

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Provenance

Richard Hart; (Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York); NGA purchase, 2017.

Associated Names

Kraus, Inc., H.P.

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.

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