| 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 |
