[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A group of 17 daguerreotype portraits featuring sitters with ornate, unusual, or highly visible chairs, including:
Sale 1069 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
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Aug 19, 2022
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Aug 30, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A group of 17 daguerreotype portraits featuring sitters with ornate, unusual, or highly visible chairs, including:
Quarter plate portrait of two young girls standing next to a baby seated in a highchair. (Tarnishing to edges; clumsily resealed.) Housed in a full pressed paper case (surface wear). -- Sixth plate portrait of a young child standing next to a regular-sized chair and holding a hat. (Some tarnishing to edges, bit of fuzziness to image clarity; retains portions of original seal.) Housed in a half pressed paper case (surface wear). -- Sixth plate portrait of two young boys sitting in the same ornately-carved chair. (Some spotting to plate, oxidation to preserver; resealed 1996.) Housed in a half pressed paper case (surface wear). -- Sixth plate portrait of an elderly woman sitting in what might be a large rocking chair. (Some spotting to plate, oxidation to preserver; resealed.) Housed in a full pressed paper case (wear and discoloration to satin pad, surface wear, separation to spine). -- And 13 others, including one half plate example and 12 sixth plate examples, some housed in full cases, others in half or no cases. -- Together, 17 daguerreotypes of sitters posed in and around interesting chairs.
19th-20th Century Historic Photography Collection of Dr. Joseph T. Pollock
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