Boy with Book
Artist
George S. Cook
(American, 1819 - 1902)
Dateca. 1849-1850
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (sixth): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (8.26 × 6.99 cm)
Case (open): 3 5/8 × 6 1/2 × 3/8 inches (9.21 × 16.51 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 3 5/8 × 3 1/4 × 5/8 inches (9.21 × 8.26 × 1.59 cm)
Case (open): 3 5/8 × 6 1/2 × 3/8 inches (9.21 × 16.51 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 3 5/8 × 3 1/4 × 5/8 inches (9.21 × 8.26 × 1.59 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.30
SignedInside case, on velvet liner, embossed: "GEO. S. COOK / ARTIST / CHARLESTON"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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Terms
Peter E. Palmquist and Thomas R. Kailbourn, Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide, A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005): 172-74; A. Lawrence Kocher and Howard Dearstyne, Shadows in Silver (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954); and A.D. Cohen, "George S. Cook and the Daguerrean Art," Photographic Art-Journal 1:5 (May 1851): 285.
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