Daguerreotype portrait of a woman with curled hair and shawl – Vintage Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Daguerreotype portrait of a woman with curled hair and shawl. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Daguerreotype portrait of a woman with curled hair and shawl
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The record gives us a woman with curled hair draped in a shawl, captured in 1844, when the daguerreotype was barely five years old as a public process. Daguerreotypes were made on silvered copper plates, so each one is a single, unrepeatable image that must be tilted in the light to reveal its tones. Portraits from this period often required subjects to sit motionless for many seconds, which helps explain the composed, formal stillness common to sitters of the era. The curled hairstyle and shawl point to fashions of the mid-1840s, offering a glimpse of how well-off and middle-class women presented themselves before the camera.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,300 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 518_Unidentified_woman_head_1844 |
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