Bunker Hill Monument
Josiah Johnson Hawes
1845/1900
Medium
Albumen print (carte-de-visite)
Dimensions
Image: 8.9 × 5.3 cm (3 9/16 × 2 1/8 in.); Card: 10 × 6.1 cm (3 15/16 × 2 7/16 in.)
Classification
carte-de-visite (albumen)
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
33516
About the Artist
Josiah Johnson Hawes
Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901) was born on a farm in East Sudbury, now Wayland, Massachusetts, and began his artistic journey after apprenticing as a carpenter from age seventeen for six years. Self-taught as a painter, he acquired books, colors, and brushes to study independently, mastering miniature portraits on ivory, oil paintings, and landscapes "with no teacher but my books." In 1841, a ch...