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[Unidentified Man Wearing Turban]

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[Unidentified Man Wearing Turban]

Albert Sands Southworth (American, West Fairlee, Vermont 1811–1894 Charlestown, Massachusetts)

Artist:: Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, Wayland, Massachusetts 1808–1901 Crawford Notch, New Hampshire)
Date:: 1851–52
Medium:: Daguerreotype
Dimensions:: 8.3 x 7.0 cm (3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937
Accession Number:: 37.14.29

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, or Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes; [Holman's Print Shop, Boston]; I.N. Phelps Stokes, New York, 1937
Notes

This is likely a copy daguerreotype, perhaps brought back from Egypt by Bayard Taylor. See letter from Bayard Taylor Memorial Library in object file. Previously identified as Bayard Taylor.

The sitter was previously identified as poet and travel writer Bayard Taylor (1825-1878). The image is probably a copy dagerreotype, perhaps brought back by Taylor from Eygpt, which he visited in 1851.
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