Portrait of a Chilean sailor

Book TitlePortrait of Chilean sailor

Exhibition TitlePortrait of a Chilean sailor

Artist William J. Shew (American, 1820 - 1903)

Dateca. 1850

MediumHand-colored daguerreotype

DimensionsPlate (ninth): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (8.26 × 6.99 cm)
Case (open): 3 7/8 × 4 7/8 × 1/4 inches (9.83 × 12.37 × 0.64 cm)
Case (closed): 3 7/8 × 2 3/8 × 1/2 inches (9.83 × 6.05 × 1.27 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2017.68.149

SignedArtist's attribution stamped on mat recto, lower left corner: "WM SHEW. / 423 MONTG.Y.ST / SAN FRANCISCO."

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DescriptionHand-colored image of non-caucasian young man with brimmed hat and long ringlets wearing a collared shirt with a neckerchief. This ninth plate daguerreotype is housed in a brass mat inside of a paper covered wooden case with an emerald green velvet liner.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Silver & Gold: Cased Images of the California Gold Rush, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, January-July, 1998; National Museum of American Art. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 1998-March 1999, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, August-October 1999, no. 5.

Provenance

Purchased from private collector, California by Stanley B. Burns, MD, New York, NY, 1980;
Purchased at his sale Photographs, Sotheby's, New York, October 5, 2017, lot 13 by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.

Published References

Stanley B. Burns, Mirror Mirror: The Burns Collection Daguerreotypes (New York: The Burns Archive Press, 2012), pl. 13

Drew Heath Johnson and Marcia Eymann, eds., Silver & Gold: Cased Images of the California Gold Rush (University of Iowa Press for the Oakland Museum of California, 1998), pl. 5

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