P1999.32: Untitled (portrait; sitter unknown)
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P1999.32
- People
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David W. Bowdoin, American (1819 - ?)
- Title
- Untitled (portrait; sitter unknown)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1855
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/95476
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ambrotype (half plate)
- Technique
- Ambrotype
- Dimensions
- plate: 11.6 x 9 cm (4 9/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: on oval brass mat, recto and verso, lower left, embossed: Ambrotype by Bowdoin
- inscription: oval brass mat, recto and verso, lower right, embossed: Cutting's Patent
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Lawrence E. Martin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, passed down through the family, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1999.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lawrence E. Martin
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- P1999.32
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Verification Level
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