Portrait of Edwin Forrest
Artist
John Adams Whipple
(American, 1822 - 1891)
Dateca. 1854
MediumSalt print
DimensionsImage and sheet (oval): 7 3/8 × 5 5/16 inches (18.75 × 13.49 cm)
Mount (irregular): 9 7/16 × 6 1/16 inches (23.93 × 15.39 cm)
Mount (irregular): 9 7/16 × 6 1/16 inches (23.93 × 15.39 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2015.20.256
Signednone
InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in pencil: "Forest, the Tragedian - / Longfellow"
Markingsnone
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DescriptionProfile portrait of man seated in chair with tussled hair, sideburns,and tuft of hair on his chin; he's wearing a fine suit jacket and tie.Exhibition HistoryRotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.
An important daguerreotypist in Boston, John Adams Whipple was also one of the first Americans to make paper photographs. This salt print of the popular Shakespearean actor Edwin Forrest is an example of Whipple’s "crystalotype" process, patented in 1850. Created during the heyday of the daguerreotype technique, Whipple’s crystalotype represented one of the first uses of paper photography in America.
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2015;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.
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