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Seth Wells Cheney

SubjectPortrait of Seth Wells Cheney American, 1810 - 1856

Date1845 - 1856

MediumPhotography: black and white photograph on paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 5 1/2 × 4 3/16in. (14 × 10.6cm)
Sheet (height x width ): 6 15/16 × 4 3/16in. (17.6 × 10.6cm)

Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection

DescriptionView of a cased photograph depicting Seth Wells Cheney as an adult. He is seated at an angle in a chair, and is resting his left arm on the back of it. He is looking off camera to the right. Seth is wearing a light colored shirt and vest with a darker jacket, pants, and bow tie. His hair comes to the bottom of his ears at the front and is longer in the back. He is clean-shaven. The corner of a table is visible on the right, covered in a decorative cloth. A large portrait of a woman is resting against the wall in the background on the right. There is a striped metallic border around the image area.

Object number2024.1.18

MarkingsPrinted in black ink on verso, in top right corner, perpendicular to image orientation: "18"InscribedHandwritten in pencil on verso: "Seth Cheney"NotesDate note: Date that photograph was taken is unknown. Date of original cased photograph is estimated as 1845-1856 based on life dates and approximate age of subject in photograph.

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