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[Martha Ripley Hawley and her Daughter-in-Law Harriet Tobey Hawley]

[Martha Ripley Hawley and her Daughter-in-Law Harriet Tobey Hawley]

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[Martha Ripley Hawley and her Daughter-in-Law Harriet Tobey Hawley]
ArtistAmerican, 1808–1901
ArtistAmerican, 1811–1894
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • [Martha Ripley Hawley and her Daughter-in-Law Harriet Tobey Hawley]
Date1850–1855
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsImage: 8 1/8 × 6 1/8 in. (20.6 × 15.6 cm)
 Closed: 9 × 7 3/16 × 7/8 in. (22.9 × 18.3 × 2.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. Morris Photography Endowment and The Bayou Bend Collection, funded by The Brown Foundation, Inc. in memory of Michael K. Brown
Object number2015.405
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionRecognized in their own day as America’s premier daguerreotypists, Southworth and Hawes catered to a wealthy Boston clientele and notable visitors to the city during the 1850s. The studio’s portrait daguerreotypes—one-of-a-kind photographs on silver-plated sheets of copper—were admired for their extraordinary detail and subtle lighting effects, combined with studio props that were traditional signifiers of status, here the finely carved armchair and classical column.
Provenance[…]; Estate, New York; Private collection, New York; [Helder Costa, Arlington, Massachusetts, 1987]; purchased by MFAH, 2015.
Published References The most exhaustive study of the work of Southworth and Hawes is: Brian Wallis and Grant Romer, "Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes" (NY: International Center for Photography; Rochester, NY: George Eastman House; Gottingen: Steidl, 2005). This plate was unknown at the time the catalogue raisonné was published. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Label inscribed in ink on verso case:
Martha Ripley who / married Truman Hawley / Harriet Tobey who married Truman Ripley Hawley - / Martha was mother-in-law / of Harriet
Two intaglio markings on the plate, a semi-oval shaped hallmark indicating the plate maker's mark: CHRISTOFL and to the left of the hallmark; CHRISTOFL printed again.

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Josiah Johnson Hawes