Dead Child On a Sofa
c. 1855
Maker Unknown
Photography
Dead Child On a Sofa, c. 1855. America, 19th century. Daguerreotype, applied color, quarter-plate; image: 6.3 x 8.7 cm (2 1/2 x 3 7/16 in.); case: 11.8 x 9.4 cm (4 5/8 x 3 11/16 in.); mounted: 8.2 x 10.7 cm (3 1/4 x 4 3/16 in.); matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2002.35
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- daguerreotype, applied color, quarter-plate
- Medium
- daguerreotype, applied, color, quarter-plate
- Dimensions
- Image: 6.3 x 8.7 cm (2 1/2 x 3 7/16 in.); Case: 11.8 x 9.4 cm (4 5/8 x 3 11/16 in.); Mounted: 8.2 x 10.7 cm (3 1/4 x 4 3/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 2002.35
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Collection of American Photography, Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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