[Seated Elderly Woman Wearing Plaid Dress and Bonnet]

William Hardy Kent American

1854–60

Not on view

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Title: [Seated Elderly Woman Wearing Plaid Dress and Bonnet]
Artist: William Hardy Kent (American, England 1819–1907 England)
Date: 1854–60
Medium: Daguerreotype with applied color
Dimensions: Image: 9.2 x 6.4 cm (3 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Plate: 10.8 x 8.3 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Frame: 11.7 x 9.4 cm (4 5/8 x 3 11/16 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
Object Number: 2015.400.28
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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