Details
Creator Brady, Mathew B., 1823 (ca.)-1896 photographer.
Title [Reverend Bird Wilson, 1777-1859.] [graphic] / Brady's Gallery 205 & 207 Broadway, New York.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date ca. 1850
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/2 plate.
Description Portrait of an elderly Wilson, looking slightly to his right, wearing glasses.
Notes Cased photographs retrospective conversion project.
Pad: Dark purple velvet, embossed Brady's Gallery 205 & 207 Broadway, New York. Fancy design surrounds broken scroll border.
Mat: Oval.
Case: Leather. A small oval surrounded by leaves and flowers is within a modified nonpareil like border. Scroll work all around.
Bird Wilson, D.D., LL.D, was a lawyer, a President Judge of the Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 7th Circuit 1806-1807, and chair of Systematic Divinity at the General Theological Seminary in New York, 1821-1850. See collection folder for additional biographical information. See Board Report for September 21, 1993.
Subject Wilson, Bird, 1777-1859 -- Portraits.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850.
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850.
Photograph cases -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.9419]
Accession number P.9419