Portrait of a Boy, c. 1850

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 7.7 × 6.5 cm (3 1/16 × 2 9/16 in.)
mat: 10.1 × 8.8 cm (4 × 3 7/16 in.)
case (closed): 11.2 × 10 × 1.9 cm (4 7/16 × 3 15/16 × 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Clinton and Jean Wright Fund

Accession Number

2020.61.1

Artists / Makers

Richard Beard (artist) British, 1801 - 1885

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

on verso of case, center embossed in gold: BEARD'S PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONS / 31. KING WILLIAM STREET / 34 PARLIAMENT ST / AND THE ROYAL / POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION / LONDON / ALSO AT / 34 CHURCH ST. LIVERPOOL.; on bottom edge of case, by unknown hand, center left in graphite on applied label: PD549

Provenance

(Jason Wright, Silver Shadows Gallery, Huddersfield, UK), 2019; NGA purchase, 2020.

Associated Names

Silver Shadows