Sleeping Baby

Media - 1994.91.289 - SAAM-1994.91.289_1 - 87403
Copied Jesse H. Whitehurst, Sleeping Baby, ca. 1855, daguerreotype with applied color, plate: 4 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄2 in. (10.8 x 14.0 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.289
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Artwork Details

Title
Sleeping Baby
Artist
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
plate: 4 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄2 in. (10.8 x 14.0 cm.)
Markings
mat lower center debossed: WHITEHURST case front interior pressed into velvet: JH WHITEHURST GALLERIES/NEW YORK/BALTIMORE/RICHMOND/NORFOLK/PETERSBURG/AND...
Credit Line
Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Mediums Description
daguerreotype with applied color
Classifications
Keywords
  • Figure
  • State of being — other — sleep
  • Figure — child — full length
Object Number
1994.91.289
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1994.91.289