Seated portrait of Wood, wife of physician George Bacon Wood, in a patterned dress, looking down at an open book on a table beside her., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. No design., Mat: Octagonal. Stamped on left bottom corner: Simons., Case: Leather. No design. Stamped on verso: M. P. Simons, Phila., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Creator
Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date
ca. 1850
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.2]
