[Woman]
Photograph
[Woman]
ca. 1850
Daguerreotype
Image: 3 1/2 × 2 9/16 in. (8.9 × 6.5 cm)
Overall (1/2 plate): 5 7/8 × 4 15/16 × 1/4 in. (15 × 12.5 × 0.7 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
Inscriptions Printed in ink, mat recto, BC: Vaillat Palais Royal, 43.
Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on binding paper, verso, T / B / L / R: plaqué 5/10ème non biseautée / Un des premiers portraits de Vaillat, rare. / passe-partout papier des premiers temps \ du portrait au daguerréotype, / Voir "La Lumière" 1851, page 14
Inscribed in pencil, binding tape, verso, BRC: 10D-102
Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on binding paper, verso, T / B / L / R: plaqué 5/10ème non biseautée / Un des premiers portraits de Vaillat, rare. / passe-partout papier des premiers temps \ du portrait au daguerréotype, / Voir "La Lumière" 1851, page 14
Inscribed in pencil, binding tape, verso, BRC: 10D-102
