Sir David Brewster (from a Daguerreotype)
William Henry Fox Talbot
(English, 1800–1877)
1862
Medium/TechniquePhotoglyphic engraving from a steel plate
DimensionsImage: 9.7 x 7.9 cm (3 13/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Platemark: 12.5 x 9.6 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 22.1 x 18.8 cm (8 11/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 12.5 x 9.6 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 22.1 x 18.8 cm (8 11/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Charles W. Millard III
Accession number2019.210
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPhotographs
Collections
ProvenanceBy 2002, an American private collection; 2002 sold by an American private collection to Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Fine Photographs, New York; March 2015, sold by Hans Kraus to Charles Warren Millard III (b. 1932 - d. 2017), Los Angeles, Washington, D. C., and Chapel Hill, NC; 2019, bequest of Charles Millard to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 24, 2019)
