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American 19th Century

Portrait of a Girl Postmortem, c. 1850

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 5.4 × 6.7 cm (2 1/8 × 2 5/8 in.)
mat: 7 × 8.2 cm (2 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
case (closed): 9.2 × 8.2 × 1.3 cm (3 5/8 × 3 1/4 × 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

Accession Number

2017.36.2

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Image Use

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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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