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Portrait of Edward Carrington Jr. (“Uncle Ed”)
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
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- 1842
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- Daguerreotype
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
The subject is a young boy seated very close to a remarkable, painted backdrop which is strongly reminiscent of the work of the Hudson River school of painters.
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