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Unknown Artist — Child with Drum

Unknown Artist

Child with Drum

1850

Positioned with a toy drum, this child's portrait demonstrates early photography's adoption of prop-based composition to create engaging and characterful images.

Medium
daguerreotype, quarter-plate

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Unknown Artist, Child with Drum, 1850

Positioned with a toy drum, this child's portrait demonstrates early photography's adoption of prop-based composition to create engaging and characterful images.

Medium
daguerreotype, quarter-plate
Year
1850
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Monochrome, Photography, Documentary, 19th Century, American, Historical, Child, Portrait, Daguerreotype, Formal

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago