Details
Title [Portrait of an unidentified couple.] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date ca. 1850
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/6 plate.
Description He is sitting with his hands clasped in his lap. She is wearing a white lace cap, and has her left hand crossed over her right arm.
Notes Cased photographs retrospective conversion project.
Pad: Burgundy velvet. In center is an urn with leaves and flowers, below which are two birds and a scroll design.
Mat: Oval.
Case: Leather. Within an octagonal border is a spray of two lilies. The design of the case is called Two Lilies and is plate 112 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Produced in very large quantity, ca. 1850. Case attributed to Myron Shew.
Subject Couples.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850.
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850.
Photograph cases -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.9807]
Accession number P.9807