P2005.12: Untitled (postmortem portrait of infant with flowers)
PhotographsThe horizontal daguerreotype depicts an infant from the waist up, wearing a white dress and holding a small bouquet of flowers, hand-colored in red, light blue, and yellow. The infant’s cheek is delicately hand-colored with a blush of pink. There’s a peaceful look on the child’s face with closed eyes and mouth. The daguerreotype sits in an oval ornately stamped metal frame inside a red velvet daguerreotype hinged case.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P2005.12
- People
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J.H. Whitehurst Galleries, American (active 1850s-1860s)
- Title
- Untitled (postmortem portrait of infant with flowers)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- c. 1855
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/49758
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Hand-colored quarter-plate daguerreotype
- Technique
- Daguerreotype
- Dimensions
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image: 6.3 x 8.4 cm (2 1/2 x 3 5/16 in.)
plate, sight: 8.3 x 10.7 cm (3 1/4 x 4 3/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund for Photographs
- Accession Year
- 2005
- Object Number
- P2005.12
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013
- 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/08/2021 - 02/28/2022
Verification Level
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