Details
Title [Portrait of an unidentified African American woman] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; plate 70 x 80 mm (sixth plate format)
Description Three-quarter length, front facing portrait of a seated African American woman. Sitter has dark hair, parted in the middle, crimped, and looped behind her ears. She is attired in a dark-colored, silk dress with long, bell-shaped sleeves with trim details and ruching below the shoulder. She also wears a lace collar and cuffs. A pin adorns the front of her collar. She rests her left forearm on a book which sits atop a table covered in a patterned cloth in the right of the image. A ribbon adorns her left wrist and she wears a ring on her left forefinger. Her right hand rests in her lap. Her lips and upper cheeks are tinted pink. Sitter is probably a member or acquaintance of the Dickerson Family of Philadelphia.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from sitter's attire.
Tinting on sitter's lips and upper cheeks.
Pad: Deep purple velvet without a design.
Mat: Oval.
Case: Leather. Case design showing small vase of flowers in the center surrounded by ornate decorations is called "Flower Vase Motif" and is Plate 146 in Floyd and Marion Rinhart's American miniature case art (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Geometric design on verso.
Die-engraver's name on case design reads A[nthony] C. Paquet.
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 -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women -- 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.9427.15]
Accession number P.9427.15