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Meade Brothers Studio in Williamsburgh, NY

Object Details

Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Artist
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869
Charles Richard Meade, Mar 1826 - 1858
Henry William Mathew Meade, 1822 - 27 Jan 1865
Associated Institution
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869
Date
c. 1853
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
Medium
Half-plate daguerreotype, silver plate on copper sheet
Dimensions
Image/Sight: 8.9 × 12.1 cm (3 1/2 × 4 3/4")
Mat (brass): 10.5 × 13.6 cm (4 1/8 × 5 3/8")
Case open: 24 × 15.1 × 1 cm (9 7/16 × 5 15/16 × 3/8")
Case closed: 12.3 × 15.1 × 2 cm (4 13/16 × 5 15/16 × 13/16")
Type
Photograph
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