Lot Essay
The large portrait shows a mother, father and their three children, the quarter-plate is of a gentleman, the sixth-plate is of a mother and baby.
American daguerreotype portraits, circa 1850s
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HESLER, WELLS, WILLIAMSON BROS.
American daguerreotype portraits, circa 1850s
Three daguerreotypes, one half-plate, lightly hand-tinted, folding morocco case, the lining stamped Hesler's Metropolitan Gallery Laselle St. Chicago; one quarter-plate, lightly hand-tinted, the gilt mount stamped J.D. Wells. Northampton, folding morocco case; and one sixth-plate, folding morocco case stamped Williamson Bros. Brooklyn N.Y.C. (3)
American daguerreotype portraits, circa 1850s
Three daguerreotypes, one half-plate, lightly hand-tinted, folding morocco case, the lining stamped Hesler's Metropolitan Gallery Laselle St. Chicago; one quarter-plate, lightly hand-tinted, the gilt mount stamped J.D. Wells. Northampton, folding morocco case; and one sixth-plate, folding morocco case stamped Williamson Bros. Brooklyn N.Y.C. (3)