Students from the Emerson School for Girls
Artist
Southworth & Hawes
(American, active 1843-1861; Albert Sands Southworth, 1811-1894; Josiah Johnson Hawes, 1808-1901)
Dateca. 1850-1855
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (whole): 6 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (16.51 × 21.59 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.280
Signednone
InscribedOn plate verso, upper left, in pencil: "$10 / Emerson School"
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of a group of young women in 19th century style dresses in a sparse room with two windows. Several women in the center of the image are reading from a very large book which takes two women to hold open. This full plate uncased daguerreotype is housed in an object package without a mat.Gallery LabelThis portrait features twenty-five students from the Emerson School for Girls, posed in the studio of Southworth & Hawes. Lyrically arranged in small groupings, the women convey individuality through gesture and pose, but come together as a beautifully orchestrated whole.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1999;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Grant B. Romer and Brian Wallis, eds., Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes (Göttingen: Steidl/George Eastman House/International Center of Photography, 2005).
Richard Saunders .Amercian Faces: A
Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity (New England: University Press
of New England, 2016) 41, Fig 2.12 (repro.).
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Southworth & Hawes
ca. 1850-1851; printed 1912
2020.11.4
