Sixth plate daguerreotype of woman with a forlorn expression. Mat stamped A. Washington / 136 Main St, Hartford-CT. Housed in a full leather case. The son of a South Asian mother and a man who had been a slave in Virginia, Augustus Washington was born free in Trenton, NJ. As a teenager he read antislavery literature and attended abolitionist meetings, and vowed “to become a scholar, a teacher, and a useful man” (Shumard, p.2). In the late 1830s and early 1840s Washington attended several colleges, including Oneida Institute in Whitesboro, NY, Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, NH, and Dartmouth College, with some abolitionist assistance. He supported himself with daguerreotypy, taking portraits of Dartmouth faculty and many of the citizens in Hanover, NH. In 1844 Washington moved to Hartford, home to many reform activities, and taught at the North African School for two years. He then operated a daguerreotype studio there ca. 1846-1848, resuming business in 1850. Among his prestigious sitters were members of Hartford’s elite, such as poet Lydia Sigourney, jurist and insurance company executive Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, and the abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown (the latter whose image was sold by Cowan's in 2007 for $97,750). In 1851 Washington declared in the New-York Daily Tribune that black Americans were “ever [to] find a home on earth for the development of their manhood and intellect it [would] first be in Liberia or some other part of Africa.” Two years later he and his family immigrated to Monrovia, where he daguerreotyped Liberian senators; these images are now in the Library of Congress. By 1858 Washington seems to have abandoned photography in favor of farming a sugar plantation. A scarce image by a significant African American daguerreian. In fact, this is the only Washington image we have had the privilege to offer besides John Brown's. Provenance: Dr. John W. Ravage Collection of African American Photography Condition: Tarnishing ring at mat edges. Two small oxidation spots, on the subjects forehead and sleeve. Case moderately worn and loosening at the spine, but still connected.
Sixth plate daguerreotype of woman with a forlorn expression. Mat stamped A. Washington / 136 Main St, Hartford-CT. Housed in a full leather case. The son of a South Asian mother and a man who had been a slave in Virginia, Augustus Washington was born free in Trenton, NJ. As a teenager he read antislavery literature and attended abolitionist meetings, and vowed “to become a scholar, a teacher, and a useful man” (Shumard, p.2). In the late 1830s and early 1840s Washington attended several colleges, including Oneida Institute in Whitesboro, NY, Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, NH, and Dartmouth College, with some abolitionist assistance. He supported himself with daguerreotypy, taking portraits of Dartmouth faculty and many of the citizens in Hanover, NH. In 1844 Washington moved to Hartford, home to many reform activities, and taught at the North African School for two years. He then operated a daguerreotype studio there ca. 1846-1848, resuming business in 1850. Among his prestigious sitters were members of Hartford’s elite, such as poet Lydia Sigourney, jurist and insurance company executive Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, and the abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown (the latter whose image was sold by Cowan's in 2007 for $97,750). In 1851 Washington declared in the New-York Daily Tribune that black Americans were “ever [to] find a home on earth for the development of their manhood and intellect it [would] first be in Liberia or some other part of Africa.” Two years later he and his family immigrated to Monrovia, where he daguerreotyped Liberian senators; these images are now in the Library of Congress. By 1858 Washington seems to have abandoned photography in favor of farming a sugar plantation. A scarce image by a significant African American daguerreian. In fact, this is the only Washington image we have had the privilege to offer besides John Brown's. Provenance: Dr. John W. Ravage Collection of African American Photography Condition: Tarnishing ring at mat edges. Two small oxidation spots, on the subjects forehead and sleeve. Case moderately worn and loosening at the spine, but still connected.
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