[Child seated in chair, mother positioned at edge of image]
Photograph
[Child seated in chair, mother positioned at edge of image]
ca. 1850
Daguerreotype
Image: 10.5 x 8 cm (1/4 plate)
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2008
2008.0339.0002
Inscriptions The Collector, Donald Weber, inscriptions in pencl on (new) sealing tape:
No plate mark / sides are hand cut and flat with square corners, upper right and ower left.
Corners are crimped by a plate holding device. This exquisite portrait most likely made by John Whipple, Boston, ca. 1848-50.
See page 5 "Whipple & Black" by Sally Pierce and page 3 "The Daguerreian Forum" premiere issue, Nov. 1992
Retaped 2/9/93 / D.A.W. Exeter N.H.
No plate mark / sides are hand cut and flat with square corners, upper right and ower left.
Corners are crimped by a plate holding device. This exquisite portrait most likely made by John Whipple, Boston, ca. 1848-50.
See page 5 "Whipple & Black" by Sally Pierce and page 3 "The Daguerreian Forum" premiere issue, Nov. 1992
Retaped 2/9/93 / D.A.W. Exeter N.H.
