Lilliputian Souvenir
Artist
Studio of Mathew B. Brady
(American, 1843 - 1885)
Dateca. 1863
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage (each): 3 × 1 3/4 inches (7.62 × 4.45 cm)
Mount: 20 1/4 × 16 1/4 inches (51.44 × 41.28 cm)
Mount: 20 1/4 × 16 1/4 inches (51.44 × 41.28 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.511
Signednone
InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in black pen: "Lilliputian Souvenir"
Markingsnone
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionMaquette of 14 photographs with a center label that reads "Lilliputian Souvenir". The images are of men and women dressed in formal attire.Published ReferencesPhilip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, and Peter W. Kunhardt, P.T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman (New York: Knopf, 1995).
Keith
F. Davis, The Origins of American
Photography: from Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885. With contributions
by Jane L. Aspinwall. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation: in association
with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007. Distributed by Yale University
Press. Published in conjunction with Developing
Greatness: the Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885, shown at the
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 246 (repro), 346
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Studio of Mathew B. Brady
1861
2005.27.478
