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)