"An Aesthetic Darkey" from the "Aiken and Vicinity" series

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · The American Wing

"An Aesthetic Darkey" from the "Aiken and Vicinity" series

James A. Palmer

Date
1882
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Framed: 16 3/8 × 13 1/2 in. (41.6 × 34.3 cm)
Object type
Photograph
Culture
American
Object number
2017.311
Credit line
Purchase, Nancy Dunn Revocable Trust Gift, 2017

Artist information

Irish-American, 1825–1896

Subjects and terms

  • Portraits
  • Boys
  • Flowers

The Met object ID 761731. 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.