| 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 |
