Fifty Photographs: selections from SCUA collections

Ellen Fuller Channing: vignetted bust portrait

Title

Ellen Fuller Channing: vignetted bust portrait

Creator

Southworth & Hawes

Date

ca.1853

Extent

1 daguerreotype

Description

Ellen Fuller Channing was sister of the Transcendentalist writer and feminist, Margaret Fuller, and wife of the poet William Ellery Channing. Although the photographer is not identified, the image bears the stylistic hallmark of the most skilled Boston daguerretypists, Albert Southworth and Josiah Hawes, who were recoreded as having photographed both her husband and brother-in-law.

Collection:

Thacher-Channing Family Collection (MS 1005)

Identifier

mums1005-s02-i008

Cite As:

Ellen Fuller Channing: vigentted portrait. Photograph by Southworth and Hawes. Thacher-Channing Family Collection (MS 1005)