Standing Girl at Table with Book
Artist
Beckers & Piard
(American, active, 1840s and 1850s)
Dateca. 1850
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (half): 5 1/2 × 4 1/2 inches (13.97 × 11.43 cm)
Case (open): 6 × 9 3/4 × 3/8 inches (15.24 × 24.77 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 6 × 4 7/8 × 5/8 inches (15.24 × 12.38 × 1.59 cm)
Case (open): 6 × 9 3/4 × 3/8 inches (15.24 × 24.77 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 6 × 4 7/8 × 5/8 inches (15.24 × 12.38 × 1.59 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2005.37.123
SignedOn mat recto, bottom, stamped: "BECKERS&PIARD, 264 BROADWAY"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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Terms
"Personal and Fine Art Intelligence," Photographic and Fine Art Journal 7:11 (November 1854): 351; Alexander Beckers, "Fifteen Years' Experience of a Daguerreotyper," Photographic Times and American Photographer 19:391 (March 15, 1889): 131-32; and "Photographic Section of the American Institute," Anthony's Photographic Bulletin 17:10 (May 22, 1886): 313.
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