Lot Essay
Including portraits of husbands and wives, mothers and babies, brothers and sisters.
Details
A. Brothers, W.G. Smith, Usher, J. Werge and others
Family group portraits, 1850s-60s
Ten ambrotypes: three sixth-plate, six quarter-plate and one half-plate after a painting, four hand-tinted, four portraits cased as two pairs, all but one with gilt-metal mounts, the majority in folding cases (two lacking front covers), one in passe-partout, this with photographer's printed credit label on verso, two with photographer's credit stamped in gilt on cases, one in the form of a wallet. (10)
Family group portraits, 1850s-60s
Ten ambrotypes: three sixth-plate, six quarter-plate and one half-plate after a painting, four hand-tinted, four portraits cased as two pairs, all but one with gilt-metal mounts, the majority in folding cases (two lacking front covers), one in passe-partout, this with photographer's printed credit label on verso, two with photographer's credit stamped in gilt on cases, one in the form of a wallet. (10)