Portrait of a Woman and Baby

1850s

Charles H. Williamson

Artist, American, born Scotland, 1826 - 1874

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of the Richard King Mellon Foundation

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 6.6 × 5.4 cm (2 5/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
    mat: 8.1 × 6.9 cm (3 3/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
    case (closed): 9.4 × 8.2 × 1.5 cm (3 11/16 × 3 1/4 × 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.7.47


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Zimmer, Idaho); (Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc., New York), 1989; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on brass mat, bottom left embossed: WILLIAMSON / BROOKLYN NY

Wikidata ID

Q64145752


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