| Title |
[Portrait of an unidentified woman.] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1860 |
| Date |
ca. 1860 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : ambrotype ; 1/9 plate. |
| Description |
She is wearing a black dress with white cuffs and a white lace collar. A cameo pin is at the collar. Her hair is parted severely
in the middle and pulled back.
|
| Notes |
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project. |
|
Mat: Ornamented nonpareil. |
|
Case: Leather. Lacking cover. A double handled urn is within an oval in the center. Scroll work all around. The design of
the case is called The Loving Cup and is plate 175 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New
Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Produced in some quantity, ca. 1861.
|
| Genre |
Ambrotypes -- 1850-1860. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860. |
|
Photograph cases -- 1850-1860. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos [P.9491.10] |
| Accession number |
P.9491.10 |
