McAllister's Optical Shop, Philadelphia, December 12, 1854

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype

Dimensions

image: 18.9 × 13.7 cm (7 3/8 × 5 3/8 in.)
case (closed): 23 × 18 × 2.3 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/16 × 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Ph.D

Accession Number

2017.191.4

Artists / Makers

Frederick DeBourg Richards (artist) American, 1822 - 1903

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Provenance

Marion S. Carson, Philadelphia; Joe Buberger, CT; Janos Novomeszky, Hungary; Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Collection, New York, 2001; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Isaacs, Charles

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.