Unidentified woman seated in a daguerreotype portrait – Vintage Photo Print
(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 Unidentified woman seated in a daguerreotype portrait. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Unidentified woman seated in a daguerreotype portrait
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The sitter here is unnamed, and that absence is part of what makes the plate worth a closer look. Made in 1844, it is a daguerreotype, a process announced in France in 1839 that fixed a camera image directly onto a polished silver-coated copper plate. Exposures then ran from several seconds to minutes, so sitters had to hold still, often with a head rest hidden behind them. Few portraits from this earliest decade of photography survive with their original mirror-like surface intact, and the image appears only when the plate is tilted against a dark background.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,278 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 502_Unidentified_woman_abou_1844 |
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