Seth Eastman on Dighton Rock [photograph], [1853].

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Seth Eastman on Dighton Rock [photograph], [1853].

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Half-plate, hand-colored daguerreotype in brass frame of the artist Seth Eastman posing on top of Dighton Rock, a famous rock inscribed with petroglyphs outside of Taunton, Mass. The photograph is attributed to Horatio B. King and was probably taken on 7 July 1853. In the image, King highlighted the inscriptions on the rock with white chalk so they would appear more clearly in the photograph.

1 photograph : daguerreotype, b&w, hand-colored ; visible image 10 x 13 cm. (half-plate), in frame 11 x 14 cm.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875

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American painter of Indians. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to Brantz Mayer, 1852 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870713 American illustrator, painter, landscape artist, and army officer. From the description of Sketches, ca. 1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536311 U.S. army officer, topographical draftsman, and painter and illustrator of Indian life. An 1829 West Point gradu...

King, Horatio B. (American daguerreotypist, 1850-1879)

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Seth Eastman (1808-1875) was a draftsman, painter, and watercolorist who primarily focused on studies of frontier life and Native Americans. He was the principle illustrator for Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's study of the American Indian, "Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States." Horatio B. King was a Taunton, Mass. daguerreotypist who collaborated with Seth Eastman to study Dighton Rock and its markings for Henr...