Self-portrait with Wife, Elizabeth Mann Whipple, in Double Profile

Artist John Adams Whipple (American, 1822 - 1891)

Date1849

MediumDaguerreotype

DimensionsPlate (ninth): 2 1/2 × 2 inches (6.35 × 5.08 cm)
Case (open): 3 5/8 × 6 1/2 × 3/8 inches (9.21 × 16.51 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 3 5/8 × 3 3/16 × 5/8 inches (9.21 × 8.1 × 1.59 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.597

Signednone

InscribedOn plate verso, center, etched: "John Whipple / + / wife Elizabeth / 1849"

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DescriptionImage of a man and woman in profile, slightly staggered with the man in the foreground. This ninth plate cased daguerreotype is housed in an oval brass mat inside of a pebbled case with a burgundy velvet liner.

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