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[Full-length portrait of an unidentified, seated girl] [graphic].
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Title
[Full-length portrait of an unidentified, seated girl] [graphic].
Publisher
[United States]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1860
Date
[ca. 1860]
Physical Description
1 photograph : ambrotype ; plate 51 x 64 mm (ninth plate format)
Description
Full-length, forward facing portrait of an unidentified, young, white girl seated on a chair. Sitter has dark hair parted in the middle with a curl on her forehead. She is attired in an off-the shoulder, boat neckline, short-sleeved dress with decorative swirls around the collar and cuffs, a necklace, white stockings, and black Mary Jane shoes. She sits on a child-sized, wooden chair with her left arm on the armrest and curled right hand, slightly clenched, resting on her lap. Her lips and cheeks are tinted pink.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitter.
Pink tinting on lips and cheeks.
Pad: Red velvet with a diamond-shaped, decorative scroll in the center.
Mat: Nonpareil.
Case: Leather. The design of the case is called the Oval, Diamond and Circle and is plate 198 in American miniature case art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Uncommon.
Gift of Robert DeMento, 2012.
Subject
Girls -- United States.
Girls -- Clothing & dress -- United States.
Genre
Ambrotypes -- 1850-1860.
Photograph cases -- 1850-1860.
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos – unid photo – unid sitter [P.2012.50]
Accession number
P.2012.50
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