Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (1837-1861)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2010.47
People: Mathew B. Brady & Studio, American (Warren County, New York active 1844 - 1895 New York, New York)
Title: Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (1837-1861)
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: Imperial photograph, photograph
Date: 1861
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/286476

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Salted paper print

Dimensions

45.5 x 39.2 cm (17 15/16 x 15 7/16 in.)
mount: 53 x 45 cm (20 7/8 x 17 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: b.r. below image in graphite: Col. Ellsworth Taken from Life/1861
(not assigned): below image in graphite: Col. 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: 2010.47
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Diana Tuite, Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, DelMonico Books Prestel and Colby College Museum of Art (New York, 2015), p. 19, fig. 5
Mazie Harris, Paper Promises: Early American Photography, exh. cat., Getty Trust Publications (Los Angeles, 2018), p. 215, fig. 44

Exhibition History

32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/07/2015 - 09/17/2015

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