[Winchester Family Tomb, Mount Auburn Cemetery]

[Winchester Family Tomb, Mount Auburn Cemetery]

Photograph

Southworth & Hawes

Maker
Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894; Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901

[Winchester Family Tomb, Mount Auburn Cemetery]

ca. 1853
Daguerreotype
whole plate; 21.5 X 16.6 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
Inscriptions Hallmark on recto, BLC: DOUBLE \ J P 40 [see The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes (Sobieszek and Appel, 1980) #9, p. 113]
Inscribed in ink on previous backing board, verso: "89" [circled]
Label on previous backing board now discarded, verso: "National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C." "Crate 63" "Exhibition: On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography" "Date: 7 May 1989-30 July 1989" "Artist: Southworth & Hawes" "Cat. #30" "Title: Winchester Family Tomb, Mount Auburn Cemetary" "Lender: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House"
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