Martin Hans Boyè

Martin Hans Boyè

Digitized film strip
Photograph

Robert Cornelius

Maker
American, 1809–1893

Martin Hans Boyè

May 19, 1840
Daguerreotype
Image (1/4 plate): 4 1/8 × 3 9/16 in. (10.5 × 9 cm)
Frame: 4 7/16 × 3 13/16 in. (11.3 × 9.7 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1977.0242.0006
Inscriptions recto (scratched into top edge of frame): May 19, 1840
recto (scratched into right side edge of frame): T[o]
verso (printed label): Daguerreotype / miniatures / by R. Cornelius / Eighth Street above Chestnut / Philadelphia
verso (stamp): Brady-Sipley Collection
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