Group at Niagara Falls
Artist
Platt D. Babbitt
(American, 1822 - 1879)
Dateca. 1853
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (whole): 6 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (16.51 × 21.59 cm)
Framed: 14 5/8 × 16 11/16 × 2 inches (37.15 × 42.39 × 5.08 cm)
Framed: 14 5/8 × 16 11/16 × 2 inches (37.15 × 42.39 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.249
Signednone
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of a group, two women wearing dresses and carrying umbrellas and five men wearing suits with top hats, standing along the shoreline looking out onto a waterfall. This whole plate daguerreotype is housed in a walnut and gold frame with paper mat.Exhibition HistoryDeveloping Greatness: The Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 – December 30, 2007, no. 56.
Rotation 11. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 17, 2011- February 12, 2012, no cat.
Photographic Wonders: American Daguerreotypes from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Taft Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, May 17 - August 25, 2013, Wichita Art Museum, January 17 – May 10, 2015, no cat.
Rotation 24. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 – November 12, 2017, no cat.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 2000;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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, 47 (repro.).
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