Recife, Brazil

Artist Fredricks & Weeks (American, 1823 - 1894 (Charles D. Fredricks); American, active 1840s - 1850s (Alexander Weeks))

Dateca. 1853

MediumDaguerreotype

DimensionsPlate (whole): 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (21.59 x 16.51 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.286

SignedStamped on mat recto, lower right: "FREDRICKS É WEEKS"

Inscribednone

MarkingsStamped on mat recto, lower left: "ELECTROTYPO"

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DescriptionIn background, 3 story building with many windows and white facade on edge of body of water. A long bridge across the frame from the building to lower left corner of image. This full plate uncased daguerreptype is housed inside of a brass mat and framed in a modern wooden frame.Gallery Label

Gallery Label

Charles Fredricks, who would establish a successful New York studio in the late 1850s, began his career in South America as an itinerant daguerreotypist. He created temporary studios in various cities, including Belém, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina. This plate was made with his professional partner, Alexander B. Weeks. It dates to the period when Fredricks worked in the coastal city of Recife, Brazil.

Provenance

Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1995;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

Published References

"Our Illustration-How Fredricks Became a Photographer," Anthony's Photographic Bulletin 12:4 (April 1881): 110-12; "The Late Charles D. Fredricks," Photographic Times 24:664 (June 8, 1894): 355-56; and "Sketch of Charles D. Fredricks, Esq.," Humphrey's Journal of Photography and the Allied Arts and Sciences 20:27 (November 15, 1869): 429-31; John S. Craig, Craig's Daguerreian Registry, Volume 3, Pioneers and Progress: MacDonald to Zuky (Torrington: Conn.: John S. Craig, 1996): n.p.

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