John Brown

National Portrait Gallery
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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
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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Exhibition
One Life: Frederick Douglass
On View
NPG, North Gallery 230a
National Portrait Gallery
Topic
Interior
Symbols & Motifs\Flag
Cased object
John Brown: Male
John Brown: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Abolitionist
Portrait
Record ID
npg_NPG.96.123
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4d7d4f2bb-7407-447b-b47d-437d06dade0a
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