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Wedding Cake of Sarah A. Meserole and Henry W. M. Meade

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    Object Details

    Artist

    Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869
    Charles Richard Meade, Mar 1826 - 1858
    Henry William Mathew Meade, 1822 - 27 Jan 1865

    Associated Person

    Sarah A. Meserole Meade, 6 Mar 1831 - 3 Mar 1904
    Henry William Mathew Meade, 1822 - 27 Jan 1865

    Credit Line

    National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Emerson Lyons

    Date

    1853

    Object number

    AD/NPG.85.3

    Restrictions & Rights

    CC0

    Type

    Photograph

    Medium

    Half-plate daguerreotype

    Dimensions

    Image/Sight (oval): 11.6 × 8.9 cm (4 9/16 × 3 1/2")
    Mat (brass): 13.3 × 10 cm (5 1/4 × 3 15/16")
    Case: 15.6 × 12.2 × 1.8 cm (6 1/8 × 4 13/16 × 11/16")

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    Location

    Currently not on view

    Data Source

    National Portrait Gallery

    Topic

    Interior
    Nature & Environment\Plant\Flower\Flowers
    Food
    Religious\Angel
    Cased object
    Food\Cake

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm46a8599c6-39e6-4788-b0a8-50b864de93c0

    Record ID

    npg_AD_NPG.85.3

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