On the Loring Estate
Artist
Samuel Masury
(American, 1818 - 1874)
Dateca. 1856
MediumSalt print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 10 5/16 × 12 15/16 inches (26.19 × 32.86 cm)
Mount: 13 9/16 × 18 inches (34.45 × 45.72 cm)
Mount: 13 9/16 × 18 inches (34.45 × 45.72 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.241
SignedBlind stamp on mount: "MASURY'S PHOTOGRAPH BOSTON."
InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in pencil: "Doctor Prince Major Fanny"
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DescriptionImage of a two-story farmhouse with horses and wagons. A slightly sloping landscape leads up to a fenced area with cows, figures, and a tree.Gallery LabelSamuel Masury opened a daguerreotype studio in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1843, and by 1852 he had moved to Boston. In addition to his skills with that technique, Masury excelled with the new paper process-which he traveled to Paris to learn. This was one of several views Masury made of the estate of Charles Greely Loring, a prominent lawyer and the first director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This elegantly composed image strikes a perfect balance between nature and culture, landscape and human "improvements."
"Daguerreotype Miniatures," Salem Gazette [Massachusetts] (July 21, 1843): 3; Boston Directory (Boston: George Adams, 1852): 35; "Gas Explosion on Washington Street," Boston Daily Evening Transcript (March 10, 1854): 2; Joseph Garland, Boston's North Shore (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1978): 92-93, 293, 296.
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