Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Object Details

Artist

Unidentified Artist

Copy after

Silsbee Case & Company, active 1858 - 1863?

Sitter

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, 14 Jun 1811 - 1 Jul 1896

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Date

c. 1860

Object number

NPG.80.185

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

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")

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Location

Currently not on view

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Interior

Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair

Architecture\Column

Cased object

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe: Female

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Novelist

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Abolitionist

Portrait

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4e82f12cf-9c7e-4cc2-a125-4f6fa0bdf98e

Record ID

npg_NPG.80.185