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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2010.52
People
John Adams Whipple, American (Grafton, Mass., USA 1822 - 1891 Boston, Mass., USA)
After Meade Brothers Studio, American (active 1840s-1850s)
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, French (Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France 1787 - 1851 Bry-sur-Marne, France)
Title
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851), after daguerreotype by the Meade Brothers
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1851
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/274039

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Varnished salt print
Technique
Salted paper print
Dimensions
19 x 13.5 cm (7 1/2 x 5 5/16 in.)
sheet: 23.8 x 16 cm (9 3/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: sheet, lower left, graphite, in artist's hand: c1848 / c1851 in US Nat. Museum

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library, Bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell
Accession Year
2010
Object Number
2010.52
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Celia Castro Fernández, Pintura y Fotografía en el Siglo XIX: Una Aproximación al Arte de Dionisio Fierros, Hércules de Ediciones (Coruña, 2018), p. 110, repr. as Lám 76

Exhibition History

  • About Face: Artist's Portraits in Photography, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/19/1997 - 10/12/1997

Verification Level

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