[Self-portrait as artist]

[Self-portrait as artist]

Photograph

Warren T. Thompson

Maker
American, active 1840–1870

[Self-portrait as artist]

ca. 1855
Daguerreotype
Image (each): 2 7/8 × 2 3/8 in. (7.3 × 6.1 cm)
Overall: 3 3/8 × 6 7/8 × 3/16 in. (8.5 × 17.5 × 0.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1976.0168.0104
Inscriptions Inscribed on applied label in ink (Cromer's hand) on verso, TR: Collection photographique \ de Gab. Cromer \ Portrait de l'auteur \ "Thompson" [underlined] par lui-même \ (voir au bas chambre \ noire et stéréoscope.) \ J'ai plusieurs autres \ poses du même modèle. \ Thompson en \ artiste

Reverse-printed on original glass in ink, recto: W THOMPSON, rue de Choiseul, 22.

Hallmark: balance scale/christofle

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