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Artist/Maker
Unknown artist, American
Date1865-1875
MediumTintype
DimensionsMat: 4 × 2 1/2 in. (10.2 × 6.4 cm)
Image: 2 1/8 × 1 3/4 in. (5.4 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, The Paul Parker Memorial Fund
Object number2023.4.1
Not on view
DescriptionTintype depicting an African American boy dressed in a suit and seated atop a cloth-draped piece of furniture. The tintype is displayed in a period paper sleeve, or cartouche.
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Provenance
2023: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Mike Medhurst & Co., Oak Brook, Illinois
Unknown artist, American
Date: 1870-1885
Medium: Tintype
Object number: S2023.1.54
Unknown artist, American
Date: 1860-1870
Medium: Tintype mounted in paper cartouche
Object number: S2023.1.58
Unknown artist, American
Date: 1885-1895
Medium: Tintype
Object number: S2023.1.55
Unknown artist, American
Date: c. 1890
Medium: Tintype
Object number: S2023.1.53
Unknown artist, American
Date: 1906
Medium: Tintype
Object number: S2023.1.56
Unknown artist, American
Date: 1865-1870
Medium: Tintype
Object number: S2023.1.57
Keliy Anderson-Staley
Date: 2010
Medium: Pigmented inkjet print (from a wet-plate collodion tintype)
Object number: 2020.8.16
Unknown artist, American
Date: 1845-1850
Medium: Daguerreotype
Object number: 2023.4.3
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 5 , 1863
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.47
Marla Sweeney
Date: 2003
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2020.8.22
Unknown artist, American
Date: c. 1835
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 1985.7