[Woman]
Photograph
[Woman]
1841
Daguerreotype
Image (oval): 4 15/16 × 3 7/8 in. (12.5 × 9.8 cm)
Overall (1/2 plate): 6 3/8 × 4 3/4 × 3/16 in. (16.2 × 12 × 0.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
Inscriptions Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on backing paper and binding tape, verso, BC to B: Portrait au daguerréotype du début, \ puisque Vincent Chevalier mourut \ le 29 Novembre 1841. \ J'ai trouvé ce daguerre non \ encadré, avec son passe-partout seulement, \\ et portant au dos cette étiquette de Vincent \ Chevalier, père de Charles Chevalier. \ La plaque, assez épaisse, n'est pas biseautée.
Printed in ink, applied label, verso, TC: Vincent Chevalier \ Ingénieur Opticien Breveté, \ No. 69, \ Quai de l'Horloge, Paris.
Inscribed in pencil and ink, verso, TR: (Cr. 230) [numerals in ink]
Printed and inscribed in ink on applied scalloped-oval label, verso, LC: Collection \ G. Cromer \ 1933 \ 9 [numbers in Cromer's hand]
[Translation: An early daguerreotype portrait, since Vincent Chevalier died on November 29, 1841. I found this daguerreotype without frame, with its passe-partout only and having on the back this label of Vincent Chevalier, father of Charles Chevalier. The plate, rather thick, is not beveled.]
Printed in ink, applied label, verso, TC: Vincent Chevalier \ Ingénieur Opticien Breveté, \ No. 69, \ Quai de l'Horloge, Paris.
Inscribed in pencil and ink, verso, TR: (Cr. 230) [numerals in ink]
Printed and inscribed in ink on applied scalloped-oval label, verso, LC: Collection \ G. Cromer \ 1933 \ 9 [numbers in Cromer's hand]
[Translation: An early daguerreotype portrait, since Vincent Chevalier died on November 29, 1841. I found this daguerreotype without frame, with its passe-partout only and having on the back this label of Vincent Chevalier, father of Charles Chevalier. The plate, rather thick, is not beveled.]
