Portrait of a Boy with a Hoop, c. 1848

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype

Dimensions

image (visible): 9 × 6.5 cm (3 9/16 × 2 9/16 in.)
mat: 10.5 × 8.2 cm (4 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.)

framed: 16.3 × 14 × 1.8 cm (6 7/16 × 5 1/2 × 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection

Accession Number

2023.146.13

Artists / Makers

J. Wistar Davis (artist) American, active 1840s

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

on brass mat, lower left printed in gold ink on applied sticker: DAVIS / Daguerrian [sic] Rooms / Franklin Buildings, / BALTIMORE.; on verso of frame, by Ross Kelbaugh, upper right in black ink on applied sticker: KC114; by unknown hand, upper right in black ink on applied sticker: RKH

Provenance

Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Kelbaugh, Ross J.