John Ashworth, Edmund Ashworth, Edmund Ashworth, Jr., 1848

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype

Dimensions

image (visible): 8.6 × 6.3 cm (3 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
mat: 10.1 × 7.7 cm (4 × 3 1/16 in.)
case (closed): 11 × 8.1 × 1.8 cm (4 5/16 × 3 3/16 × 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2019.1.1

Artists / Makers

British 19th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

on silk lining inside of case, by unknown hand, upper center in black ink on applied paper: 3 Generations of Ashworth [underlined] / John Ashworth, Birtenshaw / Edmund Ashworth Egerton Hall / Edmund Ashworth Jr Egerton Hall / Taken 1848 Bolton

Provenance

Ashworth Family, England; (sale, England, 2017); (Jason Wright, Huddersfield, England); NGA purchase, 2019.

Associated Names

Silver Shadows

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.