Daguerreotype copy of a painting by Charles Deas "Indian looking down from rock"
Daguerreotype copy of a painting by Charles Deas "Indian looking down from rock"
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- Description (Brief)
- A daguerreotype copy of a painting by Charles Deas "Indian looking down from rock". It is a portrait of Native American man sitting on rock, bare-chested, bangles of arms, feather in his hair and tomahawk in his hand. This photograph came to the Museum with a series a of portrait daguerreotypes made of Native American chiefs while they crossed the country to meet with US Government officials in Washington, DC. When passing through St. Louis, Missouri, in 1851-52 these chiefs were photographed by photographers Thomas Easterly and John Fitzgibbons. Each portrait was a unique image. Daguerreotypes had no negatives; each photograph was exposed on a silver-nitrate covered copper plate. Daguerreotypes remained a popular method of capturing portraits from 1840 to 1860 when it was replaced with easier and less hazardous methods of negative-positive based photography like wet-plate collodion and albumen. Matted, and cased. The paper case has red velvet sculptured lining. The case cover has pattern on both sides.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Daguerreotype
- Date made
- 1851-1852
- Maker
- Deas, Charles
- maker
- Easterly, Thomas M.
- place made
- United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
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- United States: Missouri, St. Louis
- Physical Description
- metal, brass (overall material)
- metal, copper (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- leather (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12 cm x 9.5 cm x 1.5 cm; 4 23/32 in x 3 3/4 in x 19/32 in
- ID Number
- PG.003974.20
- accession number
- 121824
- catalog number
- 3974.20
- subject
- Native Americans
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- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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