Portrait of William Lloyd Garrison

Artist Samuel Broadbent (American, 1810 - 1880)

Dateca. 1852

MediumStereo daguerreotype

DimensionsPlate (ninth, each): 2 1/2 × 2 inches (6.35 × 5.08 cm)
Case (open): 7 3/4 × 4 5/8 × 3/8 inches (19.69 × 11.76 × 0.97 cm)
Case (closed): 3 3/4 × 4 5/8 × 5/8 inches (9.53 × 11.76 × 1.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2020.11.1

SignedOn tray, behind stereo viewer, top, in gold type: "FROM BROADBENT & CO'S / DAGUERREAN ROOMS, NO. 136 CHESNUT STREET, / PHILADELPHIA"

InscribedOn stereo viewer recto, bottom, in gold type: "MASCHER'S IMPROVED STEREOSCOPE / PHILADA. / PATENT / MARCH 8TH 1853"

MarkingsOn plate verso, on paper tape, in pencil: "both plates cleaned with [?] @ 7 seconds / Retaped 1-6-15 CAW Exeter, NH"

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DescriptionImage(s) of a man seated with his arm resting on a book. He's wearing glasses and a dark suit with a vest and bow tie. He sits in front of a painted landscape backdrop. These two ninth plate daguerreotypes are housed in a single brass mat with oval openings inside of a case with a stereoviewer.Provenance

Provenance

Eugene R. Groves Collection of 19th Century Photography;
Purchased at his sale American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Including African Americana, Cowan's, Cincinnati, OH, June 26, 2020, lot 13 by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2020;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2020.

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