Portrait of a Family

Provenance

Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.

Portrait of a Family

Ball, James Presley

c. 1849

Accession Number

2023.39.18

Medium

daguerreotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 9.1 × 12 cm (3 9/16 × 4 3/4 in.) | mat: 10.8 × 14.1 cm (4 1/4 × 5 9/16 in.) | case (closed): 11.8 × 15 × 2 cm (4 5/8 × 5 7/8 × 13/16 in.)

Classification

Photograph

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation