Lot Essay
Including an outdoor group portrait at a picnic, an outdoor portrait of a father and his two children at the beach, an outdoor portrait of a girl and her doll and two portraits of gentlemen.
Details
Littlefield Parsons & Co.
'American Country Life - Summer's Evening', circa 1860s
Half-plate thermo-plastic Union case containing an ambrotype portrait (3" crack in plate); with five other ambrotypes, one quarter-plate and four sixth-plate, gilt-metal surrounds, in folding cases (each lacking front cover), one with photograher's printed paper label F. Reynolds Photographic Gallery on verso
'American Country Life - Summer's Evening', circa 1860s
Half-plate thermo-plastic Union case containing an ambrotype portrait (3" crack in plate); with five other ambrotypes, one quarter-plate and four sixth-plate, gilt-metal surrounds, in folding cases (each lacking front cover), one with photograher's printed paper label F. Reynolds Photographic Gallery on verso
Literature
Krainik and Walvoord, Union Cases, no.9 (illus.) where it is referred to as a variant of no. 8
Further details
See illustration