Details
Creator Van Loan, Samuel, photographer.
Title [Half-length length portrait of two young white men] [graphic] / Van Loan Gallery, 159 Chesnut St., Philada.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1852
Date [ca. 1852]
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; plate 70 x 83 mm (sixth plate format)
Description Half-length portrait of two young white men seated and facing the viewer. In the left, the man has rosy cheeks and long, upswept dark colored hair and is attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat with a watch chain that has a cross, a jacket, and pants. He rests his lightly close-fisted right hand on his knee while his left arm is draped behind the other man. In the right, the man has rosy cheeks and long, brush-backed, dark colored hair and is attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat with a watch chain, a jacket, and pants. He rests his slightly curled hands on his lap.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from photographic medium, attire of the sitter, and address of photographer and dates of operation.
Pink tinting on cheeks.
Pad: Red velvet embossed with photographer’s imprint “Van Loan Gallery, 159 Chesnut St., Philada” in the center and within an ornamental frame composed of filigree scrolls.
Mat: Double elliptical.
Case: Leather. The design of the case is called the Bird and the Grape Vine and is plate 89 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Produced in quantity. Geometric Celtic design on verso.
Contains weeping glass deterioration.
Edges of daguerreotype plate are tarnished.
Gift of Jane Hastings, 2011.
Biographical / historical note Samuel Van Loan operated from 159 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia between 1852 to 1853.
Subject Men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Men -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1850-1860.
Photograph cases -- 1850-1860.
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos – photographer – Van Loan [P.2011.56.2]
Accession number P.2011.56.2

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