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Isaac Rehn

Portrait of a Man, c. 1860

Not on View

Medium

ambrotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 7 × 5.7 cm (2 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
mat: 8.2 × 6.8 cm (3 1/4 × 2 11/16 in.)
case (closed): 9.7 × 8.2 cm (3 13/16 × 3 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

Accession Number

2017.2.1

Artists / Makers

Isaac Rehn (artist) American, 1815 - 1883

Image Use

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Inscription

on brass mat, lower left embossed: AMBROTYPE / BY REHN; lower right embossed: PATENT JULY / 4TH & 11TH 1854

Provenance

Matthew R. Cranford, Lincoln, NE; NGA purchase, 2017.

Associated Names

Cranford, Matthew R.

Exhibition History

2017: Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.

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