Robert Cornelius / Portrait of Martin Hans Boyè / December 6, 1841

Robert Cornelius
Portrait of Martin Hans Boyè
December 6, 1841
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Creator Name: Cornelius, Robert
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Gender: M
Creator Death Place: US, PA, Lawndale
Creator Name-CRT: Robert Cornelius
Title: Portrait of Martin Hans Boyè
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1841
Creation End Date: 1841
Creation Date: December 6, 1841
Object Type: Photographs
Materials and Techniques: daguerreotype
Dimensions: 12.1 x 10.9 cm., 1/4 plate
Inscriptions: mat (embossed in metal) "R. Cornelius Fecit Philada."
AMICA Contributor: George Eastman House
Owner Location: Rochester, New York, USA
ID Number: 77:0242:0004
Credit Line: Gift of the 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
Rights: http://www.geh.org/rights.html
Subject Terms: personage, educator
Exhibition History: "An American Century of Photography, 1840-1940: Sel. from Sipley/3M Col", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, May 5 - October 1, 1978. (Traveled).//
Exhibition History: "American Photography: 1839-1900", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 29, 1989 - January 7, 1990.//
Exhibition History: "Now and Then: Making The Daguerreotype", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Discovery Gallery, October 9, 1993 - April 3, 1994.//
Exhibition History: "Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography" US, NY, New York November 3, 2000 - March 18, 2001.//
Related Document Description: Sobieszek, Robert. --Camera An American Century of Photography, 1840-1940: Selections from the Sipley/3M Collection.-- 1978 May. p. 8.//
Related Document Description: Stapp, William F. --Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the Dawn of Photography.-- Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution, 1983. p. 90.//
Related Document Description: Subject Note: Martin Hans Boyè (1812-1907).//
AMICA ID: GEH_.77:0242:0004
AMICA Library Year: 2002
Media Metadata Rights: ? George Eastman House

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