Silas Eastham
[Portrait of John Ashworth Sr. and Isabel Ashworth]

CultureBritish
Titles
  • [Portrait of John Ashworth Sr. and Isabel Ashworth]
Date1848
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsImage: 5 5/8 × 3 15/16 in. (14.3 × 10 cm)
Plate: 6 5/16 × 4 1/2 in. (16 × 11.5 cm)
Overall (Opened Case): 7 1/16 × 11 × 9/16 in. (18 × 28 × 1.5 cm)
Overall (Closed Case): 7 1/16 × 5 11/16 × 1 in. (18 × 14.5 × 2.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. and Susie Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2020.15
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionOf the millions of daguerreotypes produced in the 1840s and 1850s, virtually all followed a standard formula: a head-and-shoulders or half-length portrait, posed before a neutral background. This work is atypical, presenting a full-length portrait of the Quaker couple John Ashworth, Sr. (1772–1855)—a Victorian industrialist, agricultural innovator, magistrate, surveyor, chemist, politician, and activist for employee and human rights—and his wife, Isabel (1771–1852). The pair face one another on the roof of their factory in Bolton, England, with the roof and chimney of the nearby mill softly visible between them.
Provenance[Silver Shadows, Huddersfield, England]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.

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