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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2020.53
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
James Mongin Smith and Nurse
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
19th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/369303

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hand-colored ambrotype
Technique
Ambrotype
Dimensions
case: 9.6 × 8.2 cm (3 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: back of case, brown ink: James Mongin Smith / and / nurse / born 1856 [?] died / 1892 [partially faded or erased:] son of Is [illegible text] / Ash [?]
  • label: on back of case, black ballpoint: James Mongin Smith / and nurse / son of Isabel Ashby Smith / Born 18 [torn off] died 1895]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Greg French, Jamaica Plain], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Kenyon C. Bolton III Fund
Accession Year
2020
Object Number
2020.53
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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