Untitled (Young Girl in a Hat, Standing on Chair by Table)
1850s
Medium
Photography-Photoprint
Classification
Photography-Photoprint
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro
Accession Number
2000.83.40
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the charming world of mid-19th-century photography *Untitled (Young Girl in Hat, Standing on Chair Table)*, a photoprint from the 1850s now housed in the Smithsonian American Museum. Captured by an unidentified artist, this intimate portrait features a young girl perched confidently on a chair beside a table, her hat adding a touch of period elegance. Simple props like these were common in early photographs, helping to steady subjects during long exposure times and creating a sense of domestic familiarity. In the 1850s, photography was still a novel art form in America, evolving fro...
About the Artist
Unidentified ( ) · –