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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2010.74
People
Mathew B. Brady & Studio, American (Warren County, New York active 1844 - 1895 New York, New York)
Brady's National Portrait Gallery, American (1860-1894)
Silsbee, Case, & Co., American (1858-1862)
Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth
Title
Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (1837-1861)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph, carte-de-visite
Date
c. 1861
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/238123

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 8.5 x 5.3 cm (3 3/8 x 2 1/16 in.)
mount: 10.3 x 6.1 cm (4 1/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, below image on vintage mount, graphite: Ellsworth

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library, Bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell
Accession Year
2010
Object Number
2010.74
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Mazie Harris, Paper Promises: Early American Photography, exh. cat., Getty Trust Publications (Los Angeles, 2018), p. 217, fig. 46

Verification Level

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