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Augustus Washington

Portrait of a Woman, c. 1849

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 7 × 5.8 cm (2 3/4 × 2 5/16 in.)
mat: 8.7 × 7.5 cm (3 7/16 × 2 15/16 in.)
case (closed): 9.2 × 8 × 0.7 cm (3 5/8 × 3 1/8 × 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

Accession Number

2015.97.1

Artists / Makers

Augustus Washington (artist) American, 1820/1821 - 1875

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso of leather case, embossed: WASHINGTON / 136 / GALLERY / MAIN ST / HARTFORD

Provenance

(Greg French, Jamaica Plain, MA), November 2010; NGA purchase, 2015.

Associated Names

French, Greg

Exhibition History

2019: The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

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