Details
Creator Collins, photographer.
Title [Portrait of a wide eyed, handsome, unidentified young man.] [graphic] / Collins, artist.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date ca. 1850
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/6 plate.
Description Sitter is posed turned slightly to his left. His right arm is resting on a table, his left arm is on his lap. Hand colored pale pink on cheeks. Posed in front of a painted mountain landscape back drop.
Notes Cased photographs retrospective conversion project.
Pad: Deep red velvet. Eagle with wings outstretched on top, scrolls all around.
Mat: Double elliptical. Label on mat: Collins, Artist.
Case: Leather. A rose in a floral spray within a nonpareil like border. Similar design on verso. Double clasp.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850.
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850.
Photograph cases -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.8495]
Accession number P.8495