Seated woman in ornate daguerreotype case – Vintage Wall Art
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Description
This rare historic photograph captures Seated woman in ornate daguerreotype case in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Seated woman in ornate daguerreotype case
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A seated woman in an ornate case is the detail that sets this daguerreotype apart from the many portraits on its board: the sitter is posed in a chair, and the image is housed in a hinged, decorative frame that was part of the object as sold. Dating to around 1840, it comes from the first years of photography's public life, when Louis Daguerre's process had only just been announced in France and was spreading quickly across Europe and America. Each daguerreotype was a single, unique image on a silvered copper plate, so the sitter, the sealed case and the mirror-like surface were meant to be handled and viewed as one precious keepsake. Exposures then took minutes, which is why early sitters were asked to hold still for so long.
| Created / published | 1840 |
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| Original scan | 3,991 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 512_Unidentified_woman_half_1840 |
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