Seated woman wearing a long sleeved black dress ambrotype, 1857
Permanent ID:
7255Date:
December 1857Image Description:
Image: 1/6 plate; Seated woman wearing a long sleeved black dress, black gloves, and a black bonnet set back on the head with some white ruffles around the face and black ribbons tied under the chin, a white collar, and white undersleeves, color applied to her cheeks and lips. Preserver: Straight but more ornate (1850s). Mat: Oval with matte finish and simple embossed design (1850). Case: Leather covered wood frame embossed with the uncommon "The Tangent Circle" motif [Plate 195 on page 157 of "American Miniature Case Art" by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969)] on both the front and the back (ca. 1852).Inscription:
(printed on paper): #22 Woman, unknown. Maybe a Robeson or a Stroud (Identifying List for Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes (housed with collection))(pencil on applied label): #22 Ambrotype / UNKNOWN WOMAN / (Maybe a Robeson) (Verso of adjacent color photographic reproduction)
(pencil on paper): My darling / Aunt Rebecca Christmas 1857 / Rebecca [illegible] (Note in tray beneath image package)
Format:
AmbrotypeDimensions:
Width: 6.9 cm, Height: 8.2 cm (image)Width: 2 23/32 in, Height: 3 7/32 in (image)
Width: 8.0 cm, Height: 9.4 cm, Depth: 1.9 cm (case)
Width: 3 1/8 in, Height: 3 11/16 in, Depth: 3/4 in (case)
Collection:
Earl, Collins, and Robeson families cased photosRelated Person or Organization:
Barbara Sherman (was donated by)Library of Congress Subjects:
Ambrotype [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85004169]
Portrait photography--United States [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh2010107725]
Portrait photography--United States [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh2010107725]