| Title |
[Portrait of an unidentified little girl sitting on a high chair.] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1857 |
| Date |
ca. 1857 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : ambrotype ; 1/6 plate. |
| Description |
She is wearing an off the shoulder dress with a very full skirt. A book rests on the table next to her. Hand colored pale
pink on her cheeks.
|
| Notes |
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project. |
|
Mat: Oval. |
|
Case: Leather. Lacking cover. 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.
|
| Genre |
Ambrotypes -- 1850-1860. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860. |
|
Photograph cases -- 1850-1860. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.9491.7] |
| Accession number |
P.9491.7 |
