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 83 x 108 mm (quarter plate format)
Description Three-quarter length, forward facing portrait of an African American woman seated on a chair with an ornate, wooden back. Sitter has long, dark hair, parted in the middle, crimped, and looped behind her ears. She wears hoop earrings and a dark-colored, long-sleeve button-down, silk dress with a lace collar and cuffs. A broach adorns her collar. She also rests her right forearm and hand on a book which sits atop a table covered in a patterned cloth in the left of the image. She wears a ring on her right hand and her left hand, in a slight fist, rests in her lap. Her 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 photographic format and attire of sitter.
Tinting on cheeks.
Pad: Dark 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. Same design on verso.
Gift of Mary P. Dunn, 1993.
Library Company. Annual Report, 1993, p. 17-24.
Reproduced on cover and on page 45 of Julie Winch's The Elite of our people (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000)
Subject Dickerson family.
African American women -- Clothing & dress. -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850.
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850.
Photograph cases -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos - Dickerson Family Collection [P.9427.12]
Accession number P.9427.12