Portrait of Two Men
Artist
Thomas Martin Easterly
(American, 1809 - 1882)
Dateca. 1855
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (quarter): 4 1/4 × 3 1/4 inches (10.8 × 8.26 cm)
Case (open): 7 3/8 × 4 5/8 × 3/8 inches (18.73 × 11.75 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 3 5/8 × 4 5/8 × 5/8 inches (9.21 × 11.75 × 1.59 cm)
Case (open): 7 3/8 × 4 5/8 × 3/8 inches (18.73 × 11.75 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 3 5/8 × 4 5/8 × 5/8 inches (9.21 × 11.75 × 1.59 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2005.37.60
SignedStamped on mat recto, bottom: "EASTERLY ARTIST"
InscribedPaper note behind plate in tray, in black pen: " Brother William [?] / Brother [?] / no good [?]"
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of two young men wearing suit jackets, vests, and patterned bow ties. One man rests his hand on the other man's shoulder. This quarter plate cased daguerreotype is housed in a brass mat inside of a case with a floral motif and an embossed red velvet liner.Published ReferencesPeter E. Palmquist and Thomas R. Kailbourn, Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide, A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005): 220-22; Dolores A. Kilgo, Likeness and Landscape: Thomas M. Easterly and the Art of the Daguerreotype (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1994).
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