Details
Creator Van Loan & Co., photographer.
Title [Portrait of an unidentified woman] [graphic] / Van Loan & Co's Gallery 118 Chesnut St. Philada.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; plate 70 x 83 mm (sixth plate format)
Description Half-length, forward facing portrait of a woman seated on a chair. Sitter has long, dark hair, parted in the middle, and looped behind her ears. She is attired in a dark-colored, long-sleeved, silk dress with a high lace collar, a brooch, hoop earrings, a ring, and a long necklace. She rests her right arm on a table covered with a patterned tablecloth, and her left hand rests on her lap. Sitter is probably a member or acquaintance of the Dickerson Family of Philadelphia.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from sitter's attire.
Pad: Red velvet embossed Van Loan & Co's Gallery 118 Chesnut St. Philada. Geometric border.
Mat: Nonpareil.
Case: Leather. Spray of flowers in a nonpareil like border. Scroll work all around. A different floral spray within a modified double elliptical border is on the back. Design called "Lily and Rose" and is Plate 114 in Floyd and Marion Rinhart's American miniature case art (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.)
Gift of Mary P. Dunn, 1993.
Lib. Company. Annual report, 1993 p. 17-24.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Biographical / historical note Van Loan operated from 118 Chestnut Street circa 1849-circa 1851.
Subject Dickerson family.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850.
Photograph cases -- 1840-1850.
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos - Dickerson Family Collection [P.9427.3]
Accession number P.9427.3