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Portrait of a Woman and Baby, 1850s

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Medium

daguerreotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 6.6 × 5.4 cm (2 5/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
mat: 8.1 × 6.9 cm (3 3/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
case (closed): 9.4 × 8.2 × 1.5 cm (3 11/16 × 3 1/4 × 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of the Richard King Mellon Foundation

Accession Number

2018.7.47

Artists / Makers

Charles H. Williamson (artist) American, born Scotland, 1826 - 1874

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Inscription

on brass mat, bottom left embossed: WILLIAMSON / BROOKLYN NY

Provenance

(Paul Zimmer, Idaho); (Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc., New York), 1989; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs, Charles, Mr.

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Portrait of a Woman and Baby, 1850s

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