[Self-Portrait with Artist's Brother]
1840s
![[Self-Portrait with Artist's Brother] by John Adams Whipple](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/self-portrait-with-artists-brother-286237.webp)
Medium
Daguerreotype
Dimensions
Image: 1 7/8 × 1 7/16 in. (4.7 × 3.7 cm); visible
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.857
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the nascent era of, John Adams Whipple *Self-Portrait with's Brother* (1840s) captures tender moment of fraternal camaraderie. Created just a few years after Louis Daguerre unveiled his revolutionary process in 1839, this intimate daguerreotype from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Gilman Collection showcases Whipple, a pioneering Boston photographer, posing alongside his sibling. Measuring a diminutive 1 7/8 × 1 7/16 inches, its tiny scale belies the monumental achievement of fixing a likeness directly from light onto a polished silvered copper plate. The daguerreotype medium, unique for ...