Seated woman in striped dress, daguerreotype portrait – Antique Photo Print
(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 striped dress, daguerreotype portrait brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Seated woman in striped dress, daguerreotype portrait
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A seated woman in a striped dress is the particular detail that sets this daguerreotype apart from the many portraits on this board, since the striped fabric and her upright pose are what a viewer notices first. The image dates to 1850, a decade after Louis Daguerre publicized his process in 1839, when the daguerreotype was still the dominant form of photography and sitters often had to hold still for several seconds or more. Its mirror-like silver surface, which reflects light and shifts as you tilt it, is worth noticing, as is the fine detail the process could capture in clothing and hair.
| Created / published | 1850 |
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| Original scan | 3,267 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 689_Unidentified_woman_half_1850 |
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