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Harrison, Gabriel
American (1818-1902)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Infant Saviour Bearing the Cross
PUBLISHED TITLE: The Cost of Democracy

ca. 1850
daguerreotype
16.5 x 14.2 cm., full plate
Gift of Clara L. Harrison
GEH NEG: 25715
81:1660:0001

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3774:12

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Rudisill, Richard. --Mirror Image: The Influence of the Daguerreotype on American Society.-- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971. p. 43.//
Sobieszek, Robert A. --Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. p. 57.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 71.//
This image was part of GEH's 2000 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Images of Excellence", US, NY, Rochester January 1 - April 26, 1987. (Traveled).//
"Masterpieces of the Art of Photography", US, NY, Rochester January 3 - December 31, 1989.//
"American Photography: 1839-1900", US, NY, Rochester September 29, 1989 - January 7, 1990.//
"Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography", US, NY, New York November 3, 2000 - March 18, 2001.//
"Second Sight: The Mystery of the Daguerreotype - Selections from the George", US, NY, Utica June 1 - August 25, 2002.//

INSCRIPTION: mat verso (modern resealed support)-(typed label) "The Infant Savior", "Gabriel Harrison", "Neg #25715", (handwritten in pencil) "Top ply attached (X) PVA remove with care!", "3774:12"

FRAME: oval frame

NOTES: Catalogued 4/85, RAS/PB, updated 9/94, MMD. According to Museum accession records this portrait is of Gabriel Harrison's son Washington Harrison (born November 14, 1938) and "This picture won the prize either at the Paris Exposition or Crystal Palace, London in 1851." Museum accession records describe this object as "Boy with shroud carrying the Cross".

SUBJECTS:
allegory, religious
portrait, ident / Harrison, Washington

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