Unidentified Photographer

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Butterfly Collector, portrait of a man

ca. 1850
daguerreotype
7.0 x 8.2 cm., 1/6 plate
Museum collection
GEH NEG: 5651
79:3292:0001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Rudisill, Richard. --Mirror Image: The Influence of the Daguerreotype on American Society.-- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971. pl. 137.//
Newhall, Beaumont. --The Daguerreotype in America.-- New York: Dover Publications, 1976. pl. 15.//
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. 38.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 55.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Survey of the History of 19th Century Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Gallery, March 1985 - April 1987, 1985.//
"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.//

NOTES: Catalogued 12/84, JB/PB.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, male
still life, butterflies