Lafayette House, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire
Artist
Samuel Bemis
(American, 1793 - 1881)
Dateca. 1840
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (whole): 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (21.59 x 16.51 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.7
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DescriptionImage of a house beside a barn at the base of a mountain. This whole plate daguerreotype is housed in a wooden frame.Published ReferencesBates Lowry and Isabel Lowry, The Silver Canvas: Daguerreotype Masterpieces from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1998): 36-37, 215-16. Frederick Kilbourne, Chronicles of the White Mountains (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916); William Oakes and Isaac Sprague, Scenery of the White Mountains (1848; repr. Somersworth, N.H.: New Hampshire Publishing Co., 1971).
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