Unknown Artist

The Homework Table & Parents of Five Children Doing Homework

1858

Presenting an unusually candid domestic scene for formal daguerreotype portraiture, this image offers rare insight into 19th-century family life and educational practices.

Medium: daguerreotype, quarter plate

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Unknown Artist, The Homework Table & Parents of Five Children Doing Homework, 1858

Presenting an unusually candid domestic scene for formal daguerreotype portraiture, this image offers rare insight into 19th-century family life and educational practices.

Medium: daguerreotype, quarter plate
Year: 1858
Seen at: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago