Hale, L.H.
American (1823-1885)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Portrait of man and woman

ca. 1860
daguerreotype
12.0 x 9.0 cm. (oval), 1/2 plate
Museum Purchase
70:0078:0001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 67.//

INSCRIPTION: (no inscriptions)

NOTES: Catalogued 12/97, DZ. Originally identified as being a portrait of P.T. Barnum and Wife ("P.T. Barnum. A particularly fine full-length portrait. Barnum is seated and a woman (his wife ?) stands beside him. Traces of tarnish around oval mat and across plate. Fine gold-stamped leather case, velvet beautifully embossed to read L.H. Hale Artist, 109 Washington St. Boston." - Strober Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1970) Grant Romer states that the image is not of Barnum (12/97).

SUBJECTS:
portrait, males
portrait, female