House with Greenhouse, Virginia, c. 1850

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype

Dimensions

image (visible): 6.6 × 9 cm (2 5/8 × 3 9/16 in.)
mat: 7.9 × 10.3 cm (3 1/8 × 4 1/16 in.)
case (closed): 9.5 × 12 × 1.6 cm (3 3/4 × 4 3/4 × 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

Accession Number

2016.31.1

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

(George Whiteley, Atlanta, GA); (sale, Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, OH, 6 June 2007, lot 495, as A Quarter Plate Daguerreotype of an Antebellum Virginia House and Greenhouse); (Michael Lehr, New York); NGA purchase, 2016.

Associated Names

Lehr, Michael

Exhibition History

1996: Southern Shadows: Reflections of a Bygone Era (daguerreotypes) at the Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 10/31/96-12/15/96

2017: East of the Mississippi, National Gallery of Art, Washington; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 2017 - 2018, no. 18.