Portrait of a girl
Book TitlePortrait of a girl
Exhibition TitlePortrait of a girl
Artist
Jacob Shew
(American, 1826 - 1879)
Dateca. 1856-1858
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (half): 5 1/2 × 4 1/4 inches (13.97 × 10.8 cm)
Case (tray): 6 × 4 5/8 × 3/8 inches (15.24 × 11.75 × 0.95 cm)
Case (tray): 6 × 4 5/8 × 3/8 inches (15.24 × 11.75 × 0.95 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.457
SignedStamped on mat recto, lower right: "JACOB SHEW / SACRAMENTO"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of a young girl in a checkered, aproned dress with lace around neck and sleeves. She rests her left arm on a small floral covered table. This half plate daguerreotype is housed in an oval brass mat inside of a decorative paper covered wooden case (missing lid) with metal clasps and gold tooling.Published ReferencesWendy Calmenson, "'Likenesses Taken in the Most Approved Style': William Shew, Pioneer Daguerre- otypist," California Historical Quarterly 56:1 (Spring 1977): 2-19; "Suicide of Jacob Shew," Morning Call, San Francisco (February 4, 1879): 4; and O. V. Lange, "William Shew: A Portrait Photographer For More Than Half a Century in San Francisco," Daguerreian Annual (1991): 15-25.
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