Details
Creator Collins, photographer.
Title [Portrait of a rather stern, unidentified, older woman wearing a lace collar and cap.] [graphic] / Collins, 3d & Chesnut ; C. Loekel Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date ca. 1850
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/4 plate.
Notes Die-engraver's imprint stamped on lower left corner of case: C. Loekel Phila.
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project.
Pad: Red velvet. Urn in center, fancy scrolls all around.
Mat: Double elliptical. Label on mat: Collins, 3d & Chesnut.
Case: Leather. One rose, buds and leaves in a scalloped border. The design of the case is called Forget Me Not and is plate 174 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co. Inc., 1969.) Rare. Highly prized by collectors. A token of remembrance. The die-engraver was Charles Loekle, Phila., ca. 1855. Geometric design of interlocking scrolls on verso.
Subject Women.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850.
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850.
Photograph cases -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.9584]
Accession number P.9584