Elihu Burritt Reading
Artist
Unknown
Dateca. 1845
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (sixth): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (8.26 × 6.99 cm)
Case (open): 3 5/8 × 6 3/8 × 3/8 inches (9.21 × 16.19 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 3 5/8 × 3 1/4 × 1/2 inches (9.21 × 8.26 × 1.27 cm)
Case (open): 3 5/8 × 6 3/8 × 3/8 inches (9.21 × 16.19 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 3 5/8 × 3 1/4 × 1/2 inches (9.21 × 8.26 × 1.27 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.440
Signednone
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
On View
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Terms
Harold Pfister, Facing the Light: Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes (Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978): pp. 250-54; Merle Curti, The Learned Blacksmith: Letters and Journals of Elihu Burritt (New York: Wilson-Erickson Inc., 1971).
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