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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Unknown Artist — The Music Teacher's Wife

Unknown Artist

The Music Teacher's Wife

1850

Companion to a larger domestic series, this hand-colored daguerreotype illustrates how early photographers created sequential narratives within single sittings.

Medium
daguerreotype, applied color, quarter-plate

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