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Artist
Unidentified Artist
Studio
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869
Sitter
Henry Richard Meade, c. 1795/6 - c. 1874
Unidentified Man
Date
c. 1848
Type
Photograph
Medium
Half-plate daguerreotype
Dimensions
Image/Sight (oval): 9 × 12.1 cm (3 9/16 × 4 3/4")
Mat (brass): 10.5 × 13.7 cm (4 1/8 × 5 3/8")
Case open: 24.7 × 15.2 × 1.2 cm (9 3/4 × 6 × 1/2")
Case closed: 12.3 × 15.2 × 1.9 cm (4 13/16 × 6 × 3/4")
Topic
Interior
Home Furnishings\Furniture\Table
Costume\Dress Accessory\Neckwear\Tie\Bowtie
Game\Chess set
Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Muttonchops
Cased object
Unidentified Man: Male
Henry Richard Meade: Male
Henry Richard Meade: Visual Arts\Artist\Photographer
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Emerson Lyons. Conservation made possible by a grant from the Smithsonian's Collections Care and Preservation Fund
