Likeness on Glass

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Photo by John Bentham.
Likeness on Glass
Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datec. 1870
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 4 7/8 × 5 1/4 in. (12.4 × 13.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist's son
Object number1944.1.13
Not on view
DescriptionDepicts a scene in which a German man requests to have his photograph developed onto a beer glass rather than onto the usual glass plate.
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Provenance 1943: Hamilton College, by gift of Mabel Nast Crawford and Cyril Nast;
? - 1943: Thomas Nast family (Mrs. Thomas Nast, Thomas Nast Jr., Mabel Nast Crawford, and Cyril Nast), presumably by gift or inheritance from the artist.
Inscribed Recto, top: "Likeness on Glass"
Recto, bottom: "Herr Schneider ( A German, no mistake), went the other day to a Photographic Gallery and whonted [sic] to have his likeness taken on glass, and on a very favorite glass to [sic], which he showed the Photographic man, A Lager Bier Glass, and no mistake."
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