About the Artwork
Woman in White with her Young Son
ca. 1850
Albert Sands Southworth (Artist) American, 1811 - 1894 Josiah Johnson Hawes (Artist) American, 1808 - 1901
Daguerreotype
Plate: 8 1/4 × 6 1/8 inches (21 × 15.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Albert and Peggy de Salle Charitable Trust
1999.69
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Provenance
1901-1934, Josiah Johnson Hawes
1934, Edward Southworth Hawes
early 1940s, Holman's Print Shop (Boston, Massachusetts, USA). 1998-1999, David Feigenbaum (Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA)
1999, Sotheby's (New York, New York, USA)
1999, dealer, Charles Issacs (Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA)
1999-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The David Feigenbaum Collection of Southworth & Hawes and Other 19th-Century Photographers. New York, 1999, p.36, no.26 (ill.).
Grant B. Romer and Brian Wallis. Young America the Daguerretypes of Southworth & Hawes. New York, 2005, p.437.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Albert Sands Southworth; Josiah Johnson Hawes, Woman in White with her Young Son, ca. 1850, daguerreotype. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Albert and Peggy de Salle Charitable Trust, 1999.69.
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