Details
Creator Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer.
Title [Portrait of an unidentified African American woman] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; plate 83 x 108 mm (quarter plate format)
Description Half-length, forward facing portrait of a seated African American woman posed behind a prop window frame. Sitter rests her left elbow and right hand on the bottom edge of the frame. Her left hand rests on her shoulder, near the side of her face. She has dark, crimped hair, parted in the middle and that is pulled back into a braided crown at the back of her head. She is attired in a dark-colored, satiny dress with a plunging V-neck and that is adorned with a frilled ribbon and long sleeves with ruching below the shoulder. She also wears a white V-neck collar adorned with a broach, frilled white cuffs, hoop earrings, and a ring on her right hand. Her cheeks and lips are tinted pink. Image also includes a creeping grape vine in the right of the image. Sitter probably from or related to the Dickerson Family of Philadelphia.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from photographic format and attire of sitter.
Sitter's cheeks tinted pink.
Name of daguerreotypist inferred from studio prop (window and trailing vine) visible in image.
Pad: Bright red velvet with a scroll design.
Mat: Oval.
Case: Leather. A large floral spray with a lily and leaves, surrounded by an ornate scrolled border. Geometric design on verso.
Gift of Mary P. Dunn, 1993.
Library Company. Annual Report, 1993, p. 17-24.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject Dickerson family.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Studio props -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850.
Photograph cases -- 1840-1850.
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cased photos [P.9427.13]
Accession number P.9427.13