Image of a painter

Dateca. 1860

MediumAmbrotype

DimensionsPlate (sixth): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (8.26 × 6.99 cm)
Case (open): 3 11/16 × 6 1/2 × 3/8 inches (9.37 × 16.51 × 0.97 cm)
Case (closed): 3 11/16 × 3 1/8 × 5/8 inches (9.37 × 7.95 × 1.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2016.75.340

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InscribedInside case, behind plate, paper insert with black type: "E.J. RANDALL, AMBROTYPE / AND / PHOTOGRAPH / ROOMS, No. 111 MAIN STREET, / CHARLESTOWN. / All Miniatures warranted equal to the best / taken in Boston / Photographs taken from Old Daguerreotypes, and finished in India Ink or colors, in a style not / to be surpasses elsewhere."

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DescriptionSixth plate cased ambrotype housed in brass mat with dark purple velvet liner. The leather case is embossed with a leaf design. Image of man with rosy cheeks and lips kneeling down and holding a fat paint brush. He's wearing a striped shirt with a vest and a round top hat. A small bucket filled with red paint is on the floor in front of him.Provenance

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The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.

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