2.2002.13: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) and Calvin Ellis Stowe (1802-1886)
PhotographsThe 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
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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
- Permissions
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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
Verification Level
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