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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
- 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
- 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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