Portrait of Two Boys, 1850s

Not on View

Medium

stereoscopic daguerreotypes with applied color

Dimensions

image (each): 6.1 × 4.5 cm (2 3/8 × 1 3/4 in.)

framed: 8 × 11.5 × 0.9 cm (3 1/8 × 4 1/2 × 3/8 in.)
case (closed): 9.2 × 13.2 × 1.8 cm (3 5/8 × 5 3/16 × 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

Accession Number

2013.49.3

Artists / Makers

William Edward Kilburn (artist) British, 1818 - 1891

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

on cover of daguerreotype case, center, blind stamped in leather: BY APPOINTMENT / [seal of Royal Warrant] / Mr. KILBURN / 234 REGENT STREET; on viewing panel, along bottom, stamped in gilt: KILBURN'S STEREOSCOPE, / REGd 12th JANY 1853. / BRÈVETÉ À PARIS.

Provenance

(Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London); NGA purchase, 2013.

Associated Names

Quaritch Ltd., Bernard

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.