John Brown

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Object Details

Artist

Augustus Washington, 1820/1 - 1875

Sitter

John Brown, 9 May 1800 - 2 Dec 1859

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; purchased with major acquisition funds and with funds donated by Betty Adler Schermer in honor of her great-grandfather, August M. Bondi

Date

c. 1846-47

Object number

NPG.96.123

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

Photograph

Medium

Quarter-plate daguerreotype

Dimensions

Case Open: 11.4 x 19.7 x 1.1cm (4 1/2 x 7 3/4 x 7/16")

Place

United States\Connecticut\Hartford\Hartford

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Location

Currently not on view

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Interior

Symbols & Motifs\Flag

Cased object

John Brown: Male

John Brown: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Abolitionist

Portrait

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4d7d4f2bb-7407-447b-b47d-437d06dade0a

Record ID

npg_NPG.96.123