Benicia, California
Book TitleBenicia, California
Exhibition TitleBenicia, California
Artist
Robert H. Vance
(American, 1825 - 1876)
Dateca. 1851
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (quarter): 3 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (8.26 × 10.8 cm)
Case (open): 7 1/2 × 4 3/4 × 3/8 inches (19.05 × 12.07 × 0.97 cm)
Case (closed): 3 3/4 × 4 3/4 × 5/8 inches (9.53 × 12.07 × 1.6 cm)
Case (open): 7 1/2 × 4 3/4 × 3/8 inches (19.05 × 12.07 × 0.97 cm)
Case (closed): 3 3/4 × 4 3/4 × 5/8 inches (9.53 × 12.07 × 1.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.68.260
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionStreet scene with a row of store fronts and a group of people gathered on the porch below a sign which reads "SAMUEL GRAY". Horses and carriages extend down the dirt road towards the City Hotel next to the Gazette Printing Office pictured far left. This quarter plate cased daguerreotype is housed in a brass matt with an embossed burgundy velvet liner inside of a paper covered wooden case with gold tooling and a side clasp.Exhibition HistorySilver & Gold: Cased Images of the California Gold Rush, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, January-July, 1998; National Museum of American Art. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 1998-March 1999, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, August-October 1999, no. 116.
Purchased from Joseph Buberger, New Haven, CT by Stanley B. Burns, MD, New York, NY, 1976;
Purchased at his sale Photographs, Sotheby's, New York, October 5, 2017, lot 3 by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Purchased at his sale Photographs, Sotheby's, New York, October 5, 2017, lot 3 by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Drew Heath Johnson and Marcia Eymann, eds., Silver & Gold: Cased Images of the California Gold Rush (University of Iowa Press for the Oakland Museum of California, 1998), pl. 116
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