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Unknown Artist — The Homework Table & Parents of Five Children Doing Homework

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

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, Documentary, American, Photograph, Family Portrait, Domestic, Historical, Interior, Daguerreotype

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago