Daniel Webster
Photograph
Southworth & Hawes
Maker
Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894; Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901
Daniel Webster
ca. 1850
Daguerreotype
Image (whole plate): 8 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (21.6 × 16.5 cm)
Frame (housing): 10 1/16 × 7 3/4 in. (25.6 × 19.7 cm)
Purchase
Inscriptions Hallmark on recto, TRC: CHRISTOFLE [scale logo] \ CHRISTOFLE [see The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes (Sobieszek and Appel, 1980) #13, p. 114]
Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 544
Inscribed on verso, TC: Daniel Webster \ Daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes \ [illegible]
Inscribed on verso, C: Probably [illegible] about the \ [illegible] death
Entry 544 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Handsome large 7x9 daguerreotype of Daniel Webster. Profile head & bust. Probably made about time of Webster’s death (1852) Made by early Boston daguerreotypists Southworth & Hawes. Placed in case of #244. Plate cost $5.00. Worth about $100. Met. Museum paid $150 for theirs.
Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 544
Inscribed on verso, TC: Daniel Webster \ Daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes \ [illegible]
Inscribed on verso, C: Probably [illegible] about the \ [illegible] death
Entry 544 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Handsome large 7x9 daguerreotype of Daniel Webster. Profile head & bust. Probably made about time of Webster’s death (1852) Made by early Boston daguerreotypists Southworth & Hawes. Placed in case of #244. Plate cost $5.00. Worth about $100. Met. Museum paid $150 for theirs.
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