Josephine and Eugene Gray, Children of Joseph W. Gray

Artist William C. North (American, 1814 - 1890)

Dateca. 1850

MediumDaguerreotype

DimensionsPlate (quarter): 4 1/4 × 3 1/4 inches (10.8 × 8.26 cm)
Case (open): 4 3/4 × 7 1/2 × 1/2 inches (12.07 × 19.05 × 1.27 cm)
Case (closed): 4 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 3/4 inches (12.07 × 9.53 × 1.91 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.352

SignedOn mat recto, lower left corner, stamped: "WM. C. NORTH / CLEVELAND, O."

InscribedOn paper note, in tray behind plate, in black pen: "Eugene Gray / Editor, Plaindealer's / children"

MarkingsOn plate verso, on modern paper tape, in pencil: "Star Double 40 JP These are the children of Eugene Gray - Editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Made by William C. North in Cleveland c.1854 / Retaped 2/26/96 DAW Exeter, NH"

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DescriptionImage of two children with rosy cheeks. The girl wears an off-the-shoulder paisley dress; she holds a small purse on her right arm. The boy is seated next to her and wears a plaid shirt with a scalloped collar. This quarter plate cased daguerreotype is housed in a brass mat inside of a case with geometric designs, domed glass, and an embossed bright blue velvet liner.Published References

Published References

Mary Sayre Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, and Brian L. Meggitt, eds., Artists in Ohio, 1797-1900: A Biographical Dictionary (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, ca. 2000): 646; Samuel Orth, History of Cleveland, Ohio (Chicago-Cleveland: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1910): 320-23; Mary Elizabeth Kromer Bernhard, "Lost and Found: Emily Dickinson's Unknown Daguerreotypist," New England Quarterly 72 (December 1999): 594-601; and Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, The Pioneer Families of Cleveland, 1796-1840 (Cleveland: Evangelical Publishing House under the auspices of The Executive Committee of the Woman's Department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission, 1914): 606.

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