Unidentified Photographer

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Post-mortem portrait, woman holding baby

ca. 1855
daguerreotype with applied color
7.2 x 5.8 cm.; sixth plate
Gift of Mr. Donald Weber
94:1436:0001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//
Hirsch, Robert. --Seizing the Light: A History of Photography.-- New York: McGraw Hill, 1999. pg. 32.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 66.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting", US, NY, Rochester April 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

NOTES: Catalogued 11/94, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, mother & child
people, dead
portrait, post mortem