[Copy of Henry Willard's painted portrait of Brigadier General John McNeil]
Photograph
Southworth & Hawes
Maker
Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894; Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901
[Copy of Henry Willard's painted portrait of Brigadier General John McNeil]
ca. 1850
Daguerreotype
Image (whole plate): 8 1/2 × 6 7/16 in. (21.6 × 16.4 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
Inscriptions Hallmark on recto, BRC: [star] DOUBLE \ A. GAUDIN 40 [see The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes (Sobieszek and Appel, 1980) #10, p. 113]
Inscribed in pencil on previous mount verso: 194 [underlined twice]
Note behind image: Lieutenant Thomas Macdonough Command victorious American fleet in the Battle of Lake Champlain. see Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812, New York 1868, pp. 641, 856, 866, 871, 872, 878
Inscribed in pencil on back of case: Major John McNeil
Inscribed in pencil on previous mount verso: 194 [underlined twice]
Note behind image: Lieutenant Thomas Macdonough Command victorious American fleet in the Battle of Lake Champlain. see Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812, New York 1868, pp. 641, 856, 866, 871, 872, 878
Inscribed in pencil on back of case: Major John McNeil
