Seated woman in lace collar, daguerreotype portrait – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of Seated woman in lace collar, daguerreotype portrait brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Seated woman in lace collar, daguerreotype portrait
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A seated woman in a lace collar, captured as a daguerreotype in 1854, is set apart by the soft, mirror-like sheen of the silvered copper plate itself, which gives the portrait an almost three-dimensional glow. By the mid-1850s the daguerreotype had been in use for roughly fifteen years, and portraits like this one were prized as affordable keepsakes that let sitters preserve their likeness in a small, hand-held case. Lace collars were a fashionable detail of the period, and the fine patterns they carry are often the sharpest things in such an image. Viewed at the right angle, the surface shifts from positive to negative, a reminder of how the process worked.
| Created / published | 1854 |
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| Original scan | 3,293 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 568_Ann_Minerva_Nannie_Rodg_1854 |
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