Southworth & Hawes
American (active ca 1845-1861)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Alice Mary Hawes

ca. 1852
daguerreotype
1/4 plate; 10.8 X 8.3 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 21617
74:0193:0823

NON-GEH NUMBER: 51

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Rudisill, Richard. --Mirror Image: The Influence of the Daguerreotype on American Society.-- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971. pl. 159.//
Sobieszek, Robert & Appel, Odette M. --Spirit of Fact: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes.-- Boston: David R. Godine, 1976. unp.//
Greenough, Sarah & Travis, David. --On the Art of Fixing a Shadow.-- National Gallery of Art/Art Institute Chicago, 1989. fig. 7.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 83.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Spirit of Fact: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, February 20 - June 8, 1976.//
"On the Art of Fixing a Shadow", US, DC, Washington, National Gallery of Art, May 7 - July 30, 1989. (Traveled).//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "51." recto-(l.l. hallmark) "Scovill Mfg. Co. Extra"

NOTES: Alice Mary Hawes (1850-1938). Catalogued 8/85, BS, updated 10/88, DZ, updated 8/90, MMC. Daguerreotype is a portrait of one of Hawes' daughters. Identification based upon later Hawes image of Alice, 97:2374:0001.

SUBJECT: portrait, ident / Hawes, Alice Mary