UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHERS

Daguerreotype portraits, 1840s-50s

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UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHERS
Daguerreotype portraits, 1840s-50s
Fifty-five daguerreotypes comprising: one oval 4¾ x 3½ in. (gilt mount but no case); fourteen quarter-plate, one with visible gold toning, ten hand-tinted including three with cloud backgrounds (eleven cased); twenty-two sixth-plate, ten hand-tinted including four with cloud or landscape backgrounds, one of a young woman including a lock of hair incorporated within decorative floral and feather design inside front cover, (seventeen cased); twenty ninth-plate, two hand-tinted, (nineteen cased); with a small quantity of miscellaneous paper prints, some cased. (a lot)

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The majority of the daguerreotypes are British, with a few American examples. The large oval study is a portrait of three children, two boys and a girl. The boys are standing either side of the girl, who is seated, her feet dangling high above the ground. The majority of others are single portraits, including an early full-length portrait of a gentleman, a full-length study of a man and woman outdoors with pebbles on the ground, a small girl in a patterned dress with black lace mittens and several of Quakers, one of which is accompanied by a note in a later hand stating that its provenance is the Harold White Collection.