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Formal portrait of a couple, a woman stands next to a seated man on the left.

The woman (Harriet Beecher Stowe) wears a dark cape over a dress. She’s in the center and turned left, hands folded on the man’s shoulder (Calvin Ellis Stowe), her face is delicate. Her dark hair is parted in the middle under a bonnet, eyes looking pensively to the mid-left. Mr. Stowe wears a white shirt, dark bow tie and jacket. He’s clean-shaven with grey hair at the temples, balding on top. His eyes look up to the right, with a closed mouth. The daguerreotype is set in a shiny golden oval frame. The surface has some slight abrasions.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.13
People
George Kendall Warren, American (Nashua, New Hampshire 1824 - 1884 Medford, Massachusetts)
Title
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) and Calvin Ellis Stowe (1802-1886)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1852
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/160264

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Half plate daguerreotype
Technique
Daguerreotype
Dimensions
13.97 x 11.43 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.13
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This daguerreotype is a copy daguerreotype of the original portrait which is in the collection of Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

Publication History

  • Melissa Banta, A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard (Iowa City, 2000), p. 108, fig. 63

Exhibition History

  • A New Kind of Historical Evidence: Photographs from The Carpenter Center Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/06/2005 - 10/30/2005
  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/17/2016 - 11/01/2017

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