Portrait of Jonathan Rice and his two sons with fire horns

Dateca. 1850-1854

MediumDaguerreotype

DimensionsPlate (half): 5 1/2 × 4 1/4 inches (13.97 × 10.8 cm)
Case (open): 6 × 11 5/8 × 3/8 inches (15.24 × 29.54 × 0.97 cm)
Case (closed): 6 × 4 3/4 × 3/4 inches (15.24 × 12.07 × 1.91 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2016.75.352

Signednone

InscribedOn plate verso, center, in black marker: "JONATHAN RICE / DEC.8, 1820 - MAR.13, 1854 / HERBERT MAYNARD RICE / JAN.24, 1845 - NOV 16, 1885 / WILLIS T. RICE / SEP.7, 1847 - JUL.16, 1863"

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DescriptionImage of a man in uniform seated while holding a brass horn with tassles. He wears a suit with shiny buttons, belt buckle, and an emblem on his hat. Beside him stand two young boys also in uniforms with horns draped across their bodies.Half plate cased daguerreotype housed in brass mat with burgundy velvet embossed liner inside leather covered case.
Provenance

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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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