A Young Carpenter
Artist
Edward Jacobs
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1850
MediumQuarter plate daguerreotype
DimensionsOverall: 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (10.8 x 8.3 cm)
Inscribed"E. Jacobs NO" Stamped on mat
Credit LineMuseum purchase, gift of George and Christina Kemp, and in memory of Alice and Sol B. Frank
Object number2008.4
Not on view
Label TextEdward Jacobs
American (dates unknown)
A Young Carpenter, ca. 1850
Quarter plate daguerreotype
Museum purchase, gift of George and Christina Kemp, and in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank 2008.4
ProvenanceCollector Helder Costa; William L. Schaeffer, Chester, Connecticut; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, Museum purchase, gift of George and Christina Kemp, and in memory of Alice and Sol B. Frank, 2008
Exhibition History"Portraying a Nation: American Portrait Photography, 1850-2010," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, August 25, 2010 - September 11, 2011.Published ReferencesJohn S. Craig, _Craig's Daguerreian Registry, American photographers 1839-1860_ (Torrington, Connecticut: Self-published, 1998)
Mark S. Johnson (editor), _The Daguerreian Annual 2000_ (Cecil, Pannsylviania: The Daguerreian Society, 2000), 176. ISBN: 1881186105
