Portrait of a Woman and Baby

Charles H. Williamson, 1850s

The image shows two individuals, a woman, and a baby, both captured from the waist up. The woman is seated and gently holding the baby on her lap, positioned closely together facing the camera. She has smooth hair… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Charles H. Williamson ¹
Date: 1850s ¹
Medium: daguerreotype with applied color ¹
Original: 7,798 × 8,954 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Purchased as the Gift of the Richard King Mellon Foundation

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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The image depicts a man seated in a three-quarter view. He has short, slicked-back white hair with sideburns, and is wearing wire-rimmed glasses.

The image shows a woman and three children, captured from the knees up. The woman is seated in the center, with one child standing on each side and another standing slightly behind her.

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