Portrait of a woman with lace shawl and cross necklace – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Portrait of a woman with lace shawl and cross necklace. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Portrait of a woman with lace shawl and cross necklace
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A daguerreotype from 1844 gives us a woman wearing a lace shawl and a cross necklace, the lace and jewelry rendered in the sharp, mirror-like detail that made the process famous. Daguerreotypes were made on silvered copper plates, each one a single unique image that had to be viewed at an angle to show its positive tone. By the mid-1840s the process had been public for only about five years, and portraits like this one were typically prized as keepsakes, the cross suggesting personal faith as much as fashion. Because the sitter's name is not recorded here, the picture rewards close looking at textiles and dress as a window onto middle-class life of the period.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,265 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 499_Unidentified_woman_abou_1844 |
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