| Title |
[Portrait of an unidentified couple sitting side by side.] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1857 |
| Date |
ca. 1857 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : ambrotype ; 1/6 plate. |
| Description |
She is wearing a checked dress with a white collar. He is wearing a jacket with a velvet collar. Hand colored pale pink on
their cheeks.
|
| Notes |
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project. |
|
Pad: Faded tan velvet with a peacock in the center, and scrolls all around. |
|
Mat: Nonpareil. |
|
Case: Leather. Two birds are over a basket of flowers, under a spray of water from a fountain. Scroll work all around. The
design of the case is called Birds and the Fountain and is plate 93 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart
(Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Produced in quantity, ca. 1857.
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| Genre |
Ambrotypes -- 1850-1860. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860. |
|
Photograph cases -- 1850-1860. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.9491.9] |
| Accession number |
P.9491.9 |
