
Four Generations
Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
Catalogue
- Year
- 1858
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Dimensions
- Image (Oval): 28.1 × 22.4 cm (11 1/16 × 8 13/16 in.) Mount (Oval): 27.8 × 22.2 cm (10 15/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- James Wallace Black
Artist

Photography
James Wallace Black, known professionally as J.W. Black, was an early American photographer whose career was marked by experimentation and innovation.
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After the Boston Fire, Washington Street
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"Jubilee Singers, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee"
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Eliza "Didy" Ridgely and Possibly Charlotte Gittings
1864 · albumen print (carte-de-visite)
[Edward Everett Hale and Son]
1863 · Albumen silver prints from glass negatives
[Boston from a Hot-Air Balloon]
1860 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It
1860 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- James Wallace Black
- Year
- 1858
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Dimensions
- Image (Oval): 28.1 × 22.4 cm (11 1/16 × 8 13/16 in.) Mount (Oval): 27.8 × 22.2 cm (10 15/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1858-010186
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified



![[Edward Everett Hale and Son]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/original/DP-18663-032.jpg)
![[Boston from a Hot-Air Balloon]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/original/DP327313.jpg)
