| Title |
[Standing portrait of a little girl posed next to a chair.] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1857 |
| Date |
ca. 1857 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 1/6 plate. |
| Notes |
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project. |
|
Pad: Faded red velvet. Rose in an oval in the center with scrolls all around. |
|
Mat: Onamented ornate elliptical. |
|
Case: Leather. In center, an urn overflowing with flowers and leaves within a modified nonpareil border. The design of the
case is called The Romanesque Urn and is plate 141 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New
Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Produced in large quantity and a number of variants, ca. 1857.
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Gift of Mr. E. Perot Walker, May 23, 1980. |
| Genre |
Daguerreotypes -- 1850-1860. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860. |
|
Photograph cases -- 1850-1860. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.8514.3] |
| Accession number |
P.8514.3 |
