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Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Seated Man With Backdrop Of Charleston Citadel
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Seated Man With Backdrop Of Charleston Citadel

Artist Unknown
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1849
MediumSixth plate daguerreotype
DimensionsOverall, Support: 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (9.5 x 8.3 cm)
Overall, Image: 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (8.3 x 7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number89.79
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a sixth plate daguerreotype photograph.

Exhibition History"The Portrait in America," The Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Jan. 26 - April 8, 1990. Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson. _The Portrait in America_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA. 1990: p. 10.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
1855
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
ca. 1855
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Peter Edward Gibbs
19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
White
19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Abbott Pratt
1840s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Abbott Pratt
1850s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Jesse H. Whitehurst
ca. 1845
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
W.A. Retzer
19th Century
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Unknown
ca. 1850