Untitled (Post-mortem Portrait of a Girl)
Artist
Unknown Maker
Datecirca 1850
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsImage (Visible Image in Case): 3 1/2 × 2 1/8 in. (8.9 × 5.4 cm)
Other (Case Closed): 3 5/8 × 3 1/4 × 5/8 in. (9.2 × 8.3 × 1.6 cm)
Other (Case Closed): 3 5/8 × 3 1/4 × 5/8 in. (9.2 × 8.3 × 1.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Roberta Coke DeGolyer Estate, 1995
Object number1995.33.69
DescriptionSixth plate image of a dead girl in white lying on dark cloth with flowers under her head and shoulders. Her right hand is on her chest. The case is brown leatherette with an interior lining of faded purple satin.On View
Not on view
circa 1852
