| Creator |
Hewes, Sally Garrett, d. 1853, photographer. |
| Title |
[Portrait of an unidentified couple.] [graphic] / S. G. Hewes. |
| Publisher |
PA. 1850 |
| Date |
ca. 1850 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/2 plate. |
| Description |
She is holding an unopened book in her right hand. He is holding his eyeglasses in his left hand. Hand colored very pale pink
on cheeks of both sitters.
|
| Notes |
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project. |
|
Pad: Purple velvet. Large scrolled border. Embossed: S. G. Hewes. |
|
Mat: Elliptical. |
|
Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers within a nonpareil-like border. No design on verso. |
|
See 2000 LCP Annual Report, pp. 59-60. |
|
Reproduced in Sally Hewes, Female Daguerreotypist by Sarah J. Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual, 2002-2003, page 24. |
|
Reproduced in More Than "An Elegant Accomplishment": Sarah Garrett Hewes and Pennsylvania's Early Female Photographers by
Sarah J. Weatherwax in Pennsylvania History, Autumn 2014, page 438. Reproduced in Samuel Broadbent, Daguerreian Artist in
The Daguerreian Annual, 2001, page 142.
|
| Genre |
Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850. |
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Photograph cases -- 1840-1850. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.9833] |
| Accession number |
P.9833 |
