Harriet Beecher Stowe
Artist
Napoleon Sarony
(American, born Canada, 1821 - 1896)
Dateca. 1880-1885
MediumAlbumen cabinet card
DimensionsImage and sheet: 5 3/4 × 4 1/8 inches (14.61 × 10.48 cm)
Mount: 6 1/2 × 4 3/16 inches (16.51 × 10.64 cm)
Mount: 6 1/2 × 4 3/16 inches (16.51 × 10.64 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.230
SignedOn mount recto, lower left, in black type: "Sarony / 37 UNION SQ., N.Y."
InscribedOn mount verso, top, in pencil: "Harriet Beecher Stowe / 3723"
MarkingsOn image recto, lower left, in negative: "3823"
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DescriptionImage of a woman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, seated in a chair in three-quarter profile. She's wearing a dress with a lace collar and shawl.Gallery LabelThe cabinet card format, used here for a portrait of the celebrated American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, was introduced in the 1860s and remained popular through the 1890s. Some professional photographers, such as Napoleon Sarony, established an individual style: his contemporaries considered him “a master in the art of posing.” By 1876, his archive contained more than 40,000 negatives of celebrities.
James Lane Allen, "'Uncle Tom' At Home in Kentucky," Century Magazine 34:6 (October 1887): 802.
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