Samuel F. B. Morse
Artist
Napoleon Sarony
(American, born Canada, 1821 - 1896)
Dateca. 1870
MediumAlbumen cabinet card
DimensionsImage and sheet: 5 7/8 × 4 1/16 inches (14.92 × 10.32 cm)
Mount: 6 1/2 × 4 1/4 inches (16.51 × 10.8 cm)
Mount: 6 1/2 × 4 1/4 inches (16.51 × 10.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.229
SignedOn mount recto, bottom, in black type: "Sarony", "37 Union Square, N.Y."
InscribedOn mount verso, top, in pencil: "Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse / "Inventor of Telegraph." "
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of a man with full beard (Samuel F.B. Morse); several medals are pinned to his jacket.Gallery LabelSamuel F. B. Morse played a vital role in the early history of photography. He was in Paris in January 1839 when Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre first publicly presented the daguerreotype. By the fall of 1839, after Daguerre’s process was published in English, Morse produced his own plates and gave demonstrations to early American practitioners.
Taken approximately two years before his death, this portrait of Morse would have been produced for commercial distribution by Napoleon Sarony. Sarony operated one of the most successful portrait studios in New York City from 1866 to 1896.
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