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Half-length daguerreotype portrait of a woman in a case – Vintage Photo Print

Half-length daguerreotype portrait of a woman in a case, 1855 — historic photograph
Half-length daguerreotype portrait of a woman in a case, 1855. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

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Half-length daguerreotype portrait of a woman in a case

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A half-length portrait of an unnamed woman, captured as a daguerreotype in 1855, survives here still inside its original case, which is a large part of what makes it worth a closer look. Daguerreotypes were made on silver-coated copper plates that had to be viewed at a slight angle to appear as positives, so the protective case, usually a hinged box lined with velvet or embossed paper, was not an afterthought but part of the object itself. By the mid-1850s this format had been popular for roughly fifteen years, and the sitter's posed stillness reflects the long exposure times that portrait work demanded.

Created / published1855
Original scan3,979 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
Reference687_Unidentified_woman_half_1855

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