![Unknown, [Black Fireman in Uniform Holding a Brass Horn]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/6f6bd3c0-49cb-4497-abe9-589923db39de/full/!1400,/0/default.jpg)
[Black Fireman in Uniform Holding a Brass Horn]
1855–1856
- Medium
- Hand-colored daguerreotype
- Dimensions
- 6 × 4.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-647875
Perhaps this fireman's portrait was made to commemorate a heroic deed, for which he received the large medal suspended prominently on his chest. This fireman wears a full uniform with the hat of his particular fire company; he holds a cornet, the instrument used to warn passersby of the fire wagon's approach. Hand-coloring enhances the medal around his neck: the glistening gold and pale red draw attention to the medal and its broad silk ribbon. A faint rouge applied to the sitter's cheeks gives him a warmth that the black-and-white palette of the daguerreotype was unable to portray. getty.edu, Interpretive Content Department, 2008.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1855–1856 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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