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Portrait of a standing man and leaning against a table in front of a painted landscape.

The man wears a doubled breasted buttoned checkered vest under a long jacket with dark ascot around his neck.　 His hair is thick and dark with wide sideburns and a clean-shaven face. He’s turned three-quarter and looks out to the left, not smiling. His face is hand-colored for a life like appearance, the background is a painted representation of clouds and a small tree on the left, also hand-colored in greens and blues.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.219.54.16
People
I. Guy, American? (active 1840s-1860s)
Title
Untitled (man in checkered vest, against painted backdrop, standing, three-quarter length, three-quarter view)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1840s-1850s
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/323797

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hand-colored quarter plate daguerreotype
Technique
Daguerreotype
Dimensions
10.8 x 8.26 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: on verso (underside), top center, of brass mat: I GUY

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Janet and Daniel Tassel
Accession Year
2007
Object Number
2007.219.54.16
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • GenEd US12 American Encounters: Art, Contact, and Conflict, 1560-1860 (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012

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