Cornelius, Robert
American (1809-1893)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Self-portrait with laboratory instruments

Dec. 1843
daguerreotype
8.3 x 7.7 cm., 1/6 plate
Gift of the 3M Company, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
GEH NEG: 25041
77:0242:0003

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Sobieszek, Robert. --Camera An American Century of Photography, 1840-1940: Selections from the Sipley/3M Collection.-- 1978 May. p. 8.//
Sobieszek, Robert A. --Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. p. 27.//
Frizot, Michel. --A New History of Photography.-- Cologne: Könemann, 1998. p. 55.//
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 57.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"An American Century of Photography, 1840-1940: Sel. from Sipley/3M Col", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, May 5 - October 1, 1978. (Traveled).//
"Images of Excellence", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 1 - April 26, 1987. (Traveled).//
"American Photography: 1839-1900", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 29, 1989 - January 7, 1990.//
"Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting", US, NY, Rochester April 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

INSCRIPTION: inside case-(rubberstamp) "Brady-Sipley Collection"

NOTES: Cataloged 3/85, RAS/DZ.

SUBJECTS:
personage, photographer / Cornelius, Robert
artifact, laboratory instruments