Rural Homestead
Artist
Unknown
Dateca. 1855
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (half): 4 1/4 × 5 1/2 inches (10.8 × 13.97 cm)
Case (open): 10 3/8 × 6 5/16 × 3/8 inches (26.35 × 16.03 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 5 3/16 × 6 5/16 × 3/4 inches (13.18 × 16.03 × 1.91 cm)
Case (open): 10 3/8 × 6 5/16 × 3/8 inches (26.35 × 16.03 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 5 3/16 × 6 5/16 × 3/4 inches (13.18 × 16.03 × 1.91 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.101
Signednone
Inscribednone
MarkingsNo maker's marks on plate
On View
On viewGallery Location
- L10
Collections
DescriptionImage of pastoral scene of a house in the trees and a man standing beside a horse near a barn. This half plate cased daguerreotype is housed in a brass mat inside of a full brown thermoplastic case with geometric design and a burgundy velvet liner.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. 240.
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 23. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 18 – May 28, 2017, no cat.
Rural subjects, as pictured in this daguerreotype, were often recorded by itinerant photographers who traveled with equipment in tow as they moved from place to place. The practice was relatively common by the 1840s and benefited photographers who were still honing their craft or could not afford a permanent studio or gallery. Scenes like this serve as valuable documents of rural American life in the mid-1800s and were sources of pride for the owners of these modest homesteads.
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, 134 (repro).
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