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Artist
Unidentified Artist
Copy after
Silsbee Case & Company, active 1858 - 1863?
Sitter
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, 14 Jun 1811 - 1 Jul 1896
Date
c. 1860
Type
Photograph
Medium
Sixteenth-plate tintype
Dimensions
Image/Sight: 3.1 × 2.4 cm (1 1/4 × 15/16")
Mat (brass): 4.1 × 3.5 cm (1 5/8 × 1 3/8")
Case open: 5.4 × 9.7 × 1.3 cm (2 1/8 × 3 13/16 × 1/2")
Case closed: 5.4 × 4.8 × 2.3 cm (2 1/8 × 1 7/8 × 7/8")
Topic
Interior
Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair
Architecture\Column
Cased object
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe: Female
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe: Literature\Writer\Novelist
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Abolitionist
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution