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Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.1979
People
Southworth & Hawes, American (active 1843-1863)
Title
Untitled (Reenactment of the First Public Demonstration of the Surgical Use of Ether)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1847
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/285736

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Whole plate daguerreotype
Technique
Daguerreotype
Dimensions
actual: 15 x 20 cm (5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: paper attached to verso of the plate: Photographed by Mr. St. Clair, March, 1947.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from the Massachusetts General Hospital Archives and Special Collections
Object Number
3.1979
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Melissa Banta, A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard (Iowa City, 2000), p. 52, fig. 32
  • Grant Romer and Brian Wallis, ed., Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes, exh. cat., Steidl (New York and Gottingen, Germany, 2005), p. 75, fig. 1; p. 232, cat. no. 1886; p. 475, cat. no. 1886

Exhibition History

  • 1846: Portrait of a Nation, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 04/12/1996 - 08/11/1996
  • Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes, International Center of Photography, New York, 06/17/2005 - 09/04/2005; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 10/01/2005 - 01/08/2006; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 01/28/2006 - 04/09/2006
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Reproduction/Production, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/29/2005 - 04/10/2005
  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/07/2015 - 11/10/2015

Verification Level

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