ID: 700007297 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700007297	Record Type: Movable Work

[Portrait of Two Actresses] (cased photograph; Unknownmaker, American (Daguerreotypist); about 1853 - 1855; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 97.XT.10)

Note: Two actresses in costume, evidently enacting a scene from the play "Yelva,"or "The Orphan Girl from Russia." Elderly woman in matron cap at left pointing finger at young woman in bonnet with ringlets. Both wearing gloves, and grasping a small book or cased object. Studio setting. Intense lighting.

Titles:

[Portrait of Two Actresses] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Two Actresses (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

cased photograph [300127264] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by technique>, <photographs by processing or presentation technique>)

daguerreotype (photograph) [300127181]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs), direct positives)

Classifications:

photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1853 - 1855

Creator Display:

Unknownmaker, American (Daguerreotypist) [preferred,JPGM]

daguerreotypist unknown American (American cultural designation) [500125216]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 97.XT.10

Other: Creation: United States [7012149] North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Daguerreotype

	daguerreotype (process) [300053530]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <photography and photographic processes and techniques>, photographic processes, direct positive processes)

Dimensions: 1/4 plate Image: 8.9 x 6.4 cm (3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	actresses (performing artists) [300025658]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in the arts and related occupations>, <people in the arts>, <people in the performing arts>, performing artists) (AAT)

	book [300028051]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>) (AAT)

	double portrait [300254374]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits, group portraits) (AAT)

	gloves [300148821]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Costume (hierarchy name), costume (mode of fashion), costume accessories, worn costume accessories, an Arm oder Hand zu tragen Accessoire, handwear) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Secondary Inscription: Imprinted at inside case, in black: "[decorative element] / A.P. CRITCHLOW & CO., / Manufacturers of / Daguerreotype Cases. / [wavy line] / Are the Original Inventors of the / Composition for the Union Case, / (so called,) including all the various shades / of color and fineness of texture pecu- / liar to their manufacture and of the / Embracing Rivited [sic] Hinges, thus / securing them from breaking out as / do others that are inserted / with or without a / metal brace. / [decorative element]".

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
[Portrait of Two Actresses]	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Two Actresses	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)