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LL/29674
Southworth & Hawes
1850s
[Seated Man with Brattle Street Church Seen Through Window]

Daguerreotype, whole plate, double exposure
21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 ins, image) / 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 ins, frame)
 
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
This important double exposure daguerreotype is reproduced in American Daguerreotypes from the Matthew R. Isenburg Collection Exhibition and Catalogue prepared by Richard S. Field and Robin Jaffee Frank. Introduction by Matthew R. Isenburg. Essay by Alan Trachtenberg (Yale University Art Gallery - New Haven, Connecticut, 10 November 1989 - 3 January 1990) plate 121, p. 103, 115. It is also included in Robert A. Sobieszek & Odette M. Appel The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes (Dover, 1980), p. 94.
 
This photograph was shown in the exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
 
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