Lot Essay
The ninth-plate daguerreotype is identified as being a portrait of Robert G. Hamilton.
Details
Beard & Foard's Photographic Institution, Beard's Photographic Institution and Photographic Portrait Gallery [Manchester]
Portraits of gentlemen; portrait of a man and woman, 1840s
Two quarter-plate, one sixth-plate and one ninth-plate daguerreotype, one mounted as oval, three hand-tinted including one with gilt highlights, in folding cases, three with photographer's credits stamped in gilt, one stamped Photographic Portrait Gallery Exchange Arcade Manchester on front cover. (4)
Portraits of gentlemen; portrait of a man and woman, 1840s
Two quarter-plate, one sixth-plate and one ninth-plate daguerreotype, one mounted as oval, three hand-tinted including one with gilt highlights, in folding cases, three with photographer's credits stamped in gilt, one stamped Photographic Portrait Gallery Exchange Arcade Manchester on front cover. (4)