Susannah Smith
[Woman with Post-Mortem Child]

[Woman with Post-Mortem Child]

Public Domain

ArtistBritish, c. 1810–after 1881
CultureBritish
Titles
  • [Woman with Post-Mortem Child]
Date1853–1855
MediumDaguerreotype with applied color
DimensionsPlate (at open): 4 3/4 × 3 9/16 in. (12 × 9 cm)
 Frame: 11 13/16 × 9 1/16 × 1 9/16 in. (30 × 23 × 4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Photography Subcommittee, 2023
Object number2023.489
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Rowley's Antiques and Fine Art Auctioneers, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, June 10, 2023, lot 579]; [purchased by Silver Shadows, Huddersfield, England]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.

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