Portrait of a Boy Holding a Clay Pipe
c. 1860
American 19th Century
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
ambrotype with applied color
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Credit Line
Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation
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Dimensions
image (visible): 4.9 × 3.7 cm (1 15/16 × 1 7/16 in.)
mat: 6.3 × 5.1 cm (2 1/2 × 2 in.)
case (closed): 7.3 × 6.1 × 2 cm (2 7/8 × 2 3/8 × 13/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2023.39.10
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, flea market, Baltimore, MD); Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
possibly by sitter, inside of case behind ambrotype in graphite: Oct. 1. 1860 / Oct- 1 18[60] / [illegible]; by unknown hand, top edge of case in black ink on applied sticker: A / 42; by Ross Kelbaugh, top edge of case in black ink on applied sticker: AF14