[Man]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Man]
ca. 1855
Daguerreotype with applied color
Image: 2 1/2 × 2 1/16 in. (6.4 × 5.2 cm) (1/6 plate)
Case: 3 5/8 × 3 1/8 × 5/8 in. (9.2 × 7.9 × 1.6 cm)
Purchase
1969.0202.0020
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 140
Entry 140 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Beautiful daguerreotype photo of a painting of portrait. Frame of painting is concealed by the mat of this daguerreotype. Curled hair, tie, & collar of an earlier age. Cloudy effect in background shows that it was painting also. Probably the daguerreotype was taken from painting of some person of fame, such as a musician or poet, who lived earlier than period of daguerreotypes. Very delicately tinted in face, and very beautiful. Belonged to same collection of Parisian family as nos. 138 & 139.
Entry 140 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Beautiful daguerreotype photo of a painting of portrait. Frame of painting is concealed by the mat of this daguerreotype. Curled hair, tie, & collar of an earlier age. Cloudy effect in background shows that it was painting also. Probably the daguerreotype was taken from painting of some person of fame, such as a musician or poet, who lived earlier than period of daguerreotypes. Very delicately tinted in face, and very beautiful. Belonged to same collection of Parisian family as nos. 138 & 139.
