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Frances Clayton

c. 1865

Samuel Masury

Artist, American, 1818 - 1874

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Artwork overview

Medium

albumen print (carte-de-visite)
Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund
Dimensions

image/sheet: 9.5 × 5.8 cm (3 3/4 × 2 5/16 in.)
mount: 9.7 × 6.2 cm (3 13/16 × 2 7/16 in.)
Accession

2019.97.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, OH); (Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc., New York); NGA purchase, 2019.

Associated Names

Isaacs, Charles

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.

Inscriptions

on verso, center printed in black ink: S. MASURY, / Photographic Artist, / 289 Washington St., / BOSTON.

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