[Unidentified woman, three-quarters length portrait, seated with left arm resting on table with tablecloth and book] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Unidentified woman, three-quarters length portrait, seated with left arm resting on table with tablecloth and book], [ca. 1855] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0f/0f792515426a-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Unidentified woman, three-quarters length portrait, seated with left arm resting on table with tablecloth and book]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Unidentified woman, three-quarters length portrait, seated with left arm resting on table with tablecloth and book]
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A hand-colored quarter-plate daguerreotype, this portrait shows an unidentified woman seated at three-quarter length, her left arm resting on a draped table beside a book. The color was applied by hand over the silvered plate, a practice that gave mid-1850s portraits warmth that bare plates lacked. The sitter is unnamed, but the object offers clues: the brass mat is stamped "F. Grice," and the case is a Rinhart, both typical of the careful packaging used for these small cased portraits. The Library of Congress holds it.
| Created / published | [ca. 1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : quarter-plate daguerreotype, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.Portraits 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Case: back only - Rinhart 260. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Barboza number: 6019.049. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,747 × 4,677 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222338 |
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