Left: Daguerreotypist with tinting box as older man
Right: Daguerreotypist with tinting box as younger man

Dateca. 1855

MediumDaguerreotype

DimensionsPlate (sixth): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (8.26 × 6.99 cm)
Case (open): 3 3/4 × 6 5/8 × 3/8 inches (9.53 × 16.84 × 0.97 cm)
Case (closed): 3 3/4 × 3 1/4 × 5/8 inches (9.53 × 8.26 × 1.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2016.25.8.1,2

Signednone

InscribedOn paper attached inside case, behind right plate, in black type: “A.P. CRITCHLOW & CO., / Manufactures of / Daguerreotype Cases. / A.P.C. & CO. / Are the Original Inventors of the / Composition for the Union Case, / (so called,) including the various shades / of color and fineness of texture pecu- / liar to their manfacture and of the / Embracing Riveted Hinges, thus / securing them from breaking out / as do others that are inserted / with or without a / metal brace. / Hinge Patented Oct. 14, 1856”.

MarkingsOn paper inside case, behind left plate, top, in pencil: "143 Bust / x3 v.oval / & [?]"; On paper, inside case, behind right plate, top, in pencil: “144 / #3 v.oval Bust / E”.

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DescriptionA pair of sixth plate daguerreotypes housed in double case each with brass mat. Left plate (1) is portrait of well-dressed man seated and holding small vial from open case; Right plate (2) is portrait of younger man wearing hat tilted to side, plaid vest, and fancy tie displaying a similar case full of tiny vials or "tints".Provenance

Provenance

The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.

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