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Thomas Eakins as a Child

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Description: Thomas Eakins as a Child

TitleThomas Eakins as a Child

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1850

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsDaguerreotype, quarter plate

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/105824

Accession number2016-225-54

SubjectsPortrait photography--United States--19th centuryArtists--Portraits

StatusFormerly Collection of Daniel W. Dietrich II

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The Camera Artist

W. Douglass Paschall

Description: Thomas Eakins

THOMAS EAKINS grew up with photography. He was born five years after Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre’s 1839 announcement of its invention, four years after Robert Cornelius opened Philadelphia’s first commercial daguerreotype studio, and a bare month after the first installment of William Henry Fox Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature...

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Darrel Sewell (Editor)

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Copyright© 2001 Philadelphia Museum of Art

Related print edition pages: pp.239-255

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100266&redirecttoanchor=204482

Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916Painting, American--19th centuryPhotography--United States--History--19th centuryPainting from photographsSartain, William, 1843-1924Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904Photography of the nude--United States--19th century

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