Self-portrait with cameras
Artist
A. H. Boyce
(American, born 1830)
Date1855
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (sixth): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (8.26 × 6.99 cm)
Framed: 4 7/8 × 4 3/8 × 1/2 inches (12.38 × 11.11 × 1.27 cm)
Framed: 4 7/8 × 4 3/8 × 1/2 inches (12.38 × 11.11 × 1.27 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4
SignedOn plate verso, center, etched: "A.H. Boyce / D. Artist / Taken August 30th / 1855 / in the 25 Year of / his age".
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn plate verso, on modern paper seal, in pencil: "(RINHART 19) PLATE MFG'S / MARK UPPER R. CORNER / REGLAZED, 2-PLY SPACED ADDED / BETWEEN PLATE & MAT, SEALED / W/FILMOPLAST P-90 TAPE. / 5-24-2005 GSW / P5.744.001.01"
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DescriptionImage of a man wearing a suit with tie and vest standing next to a camera on a tripod which faces a chair. This sixth plate framed daguerreotype is housed in a brass mat inside of a decorative thermoplastic black wall frame.ProvenancePurchased from Fine Daguerreotypes by Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, MO, 2001;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Austin Earle, "Ohio Mechanics Fair," Photographic Art-Journal 2:5 (November 1851): 317.
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