id: 162784 accession number: 2003.302 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.302 updated: 2022-01-04 17:32:39.694000 Twin Babies, c. 1870. Davis Brothers (American). Salted paper print, hand-colored; image: 24 x 19.2 cm (9 7/16 x 7 9/16 in.); paper: 29.2 x 25 cm (11 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro 2003.302 title: Twin Babies title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1870 creation date earliest: 1865 creation date latest: 1875 current location: creditline: Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: salted paper print, hand-colored department: Photography collection: PH - American 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Davis Brothers (American) - artist --- measurements: Image: 24 x 19.2 cm (9 7/16 x 7 9/16 in.); Paper: 29.2 x 25 cm (11 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century opening date: 2016-10-22T04:00:00 Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 22, 2016-February 5, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Color photography was not widely available until the 20th century, but 19th-century photographs could be embellished with hand-applied paints or dyes for an extra charge. Hand coloring, often done by women, usually was limited to adding dabs of pink on lips and cheeks or gold on jewelry, but sometimes, as here, the entire surface would be covered to emulate a painting. The edges of this mount are covered with trial dabs of watercolor that would have been hidden by the mat. Once portraits leave the context of the family, the identities of the sitters are most often lost, as is the case for these twins. Since the Davis Brothers’ studio was in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, around this time, one can assume the twins lived there. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.302/2003.302_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.302/2003.302_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.302/2003.302_full.tif