Artist:

Ezra Greenleaf Weld, 26 Oct 1801 - 14 Oct 1874  Search this

Sitter:

Gerrit Smith, 6 Mar 1797 - 28 Dec 1874  Search this

Medium:

Two-thirds plate daguerreotype

Dimensions:

Image/Sight: 12 × 8.9 cm (4 3/4 × 3 1/2")

Mat (brass): 13.8 × 10.8 cm (5 7/16 × 4 1/4")

Case open: 15.2 × 24.6 × 1.2 cm (6 × 9 11/16 × 1/2")

Case closed: 15.2 × 12.3 × 1.8 cm (6 × 4 13/16 × 11/16")

Type:

Photograph

Date:

c. 1854

Topic:

Interior  Search this

Printed Material\Book  Search this

Home Furnishings\Furniture\Table  Search this

Costume\Dress Accessory\Neckwear\Tie  Search this

Cased object  Search this

Gerrit Smith: Male  Search this

Gerrit Smith: Literature\Writer  Search this

Gerrit Smith: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Social reformer  Search this

Gerrit Smith: Society and Social Change\Philanthropist  Search this

Gerrit Smith: Politics and Government\US Congressman\New York  Search this

Gerrit Smith: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Abolitionist  Search this

Gerrit Smith: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Temperance  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of an anonymous donor. Conservation made possible by a grant from the Smithsonian's Collections Care and Preservation Fund

Object number:

NPG.80.118

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Exhibition:

One Life: Frederick Douglass

On View:

NPG, North Gallery 230a

Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4e84f7c8e-1e16-44ee-a7bf-8877a90b1944

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.80.118