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[Vignette portrait of a Young Boy]
Creator
Jeremiah GurneyAmerican Photographer · 1812–1895
All works by this person →Jeremiah Gurney opened a daguerreotype gallery in New York City in 1840 and continually exhibited his work in local fairs for the next decade. In 1851 he exhibited at the international exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London. After owning a succession of galleries in Brooklyn, Gurney settled into a gallery at 349 Broadway in Manhattan, where he remained for more than a dozen years. Gurney's Dag
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1852–1857
- Medium
- Hand-colored daguerreotype
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 0512eed3-eca3-437e-a1cd-e1e117f097eb
For all its magical veracity, the daguerreotype lacked color. Since customers often preferred their likenesses to have color, handcolorists added blues, greens, yellows, browns, and whites. They often highlighted faces with a touch of rouge, as seen in this portrait of a cherubic infant. The daguerreotypist Jeremiah Gurney vignetted the boy's head and shoulders, which causes him to appear to float in the frame.
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