Seated woman with lace collar, daguerreotype portrait – Vintage Wall Art
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A window into the past: Seated woman with lace collar, daguerreotype portrait, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Seated woman with lace collar, daguerreotype portrait
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A seated woman in a lace collar is the subject here, captured in a daguerreotype dated to 1844, roughly five years after Louis Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce's process was publicly announced in Paris in 1839. Each daguerreotype is a unique image on a silvered copper plate, so the sitter's expression and the soft sheen of the metal are unrepeatable qualities of this single object. Portraits of this kind demanded long exposures, often several minutes, so sitters held still with the help of head braces and posing stands. The lace collar was a fashionable detail of the period, and its fine pattern shows how well the early process could record texture.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,234 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 529_Unidentified_woman_thre_1844 |
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