- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2.2002.12
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Untitled (postmortem infant portrait with mother)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1850s
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/160321
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Sixth plate daguerreotype
- Technique
- Daguerreotype
- Dimensions
- 8.26 x 6.99 cm (3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2.2002.12
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Melissa Banta, A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard (Iowa City, 2000), p. 4, fig. 6
- Exhibition History
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32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/08/2021 - 02/28/2022
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