The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Photographs

[Postmortem Baby, Partially Covered by a Flowered Shawl with a Fringe Hem]

Unknown

Date

1840s

Medium

Daguerreotype

Dimensions

Image: 6.6 x 5.4 cm (2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in.) Plate: 8.3 x 7 cm (3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.) Case: 1.6 x 9.2 x 8.1 cm (5/8 x 3 5/8 x 3 3/16 in.)

Object type

Daguerreotype

Classification

Photographs

Object number

2015.400.7

Credit line

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008

The Met object ID 291760. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.