Portrait of a Family, c. 1855

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype

Dimensions

image (visible): 16 × 12.5 cm (6 5/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
mat: 18.4 × 15.1 cm (7 1/4 × 5 15/16 in.)
case (closed): 19.6 × 16.6 × 2.3 cm (7 11/16 × 6 9/16 × 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Chris and Roger Taylor Fund

Accession Number

2010.59.1

Artists / Makers

Jeremiah Gurney (artist) American, 1812 - 1895

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

on brass mat, lower right embossed: JGURNEY / 189 Broadway NY; on top edge of case, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite on applied label: IC728

Provenance

(Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, New Haven, CT); NGA purchase, 2010.

Associated Names

Wahren, Christopher