Women With Poem by Lord Byron

Dateca. 1848

MediumDaguerreotype

DimensionsPlate (sixth): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (8.26 × 6.99 cm)
Case (open): 6 3/8 × 3 5/8 × 5/16 inches (16.19 × 9.21 × 0.79 cm)
Case (closed): 3 1/8 × 3 5/8 × 1/2 inches (7.94 × 9.21 × 1.27 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.590

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DescriptionImage of two women, their hair in ringlets, seated next to one another. One places her arm around the other who holds a folded sheet a paper printed with text. This sixth plate daguerreotype is housed in an oval brass mat inside of a case with The Crocket Theme motif and red silk liner.

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