Portrait of a Woman
Artist
Robert Cornelius
(American, 1809 - 1893)
DateMay 1840
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate: 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (8.26 × 6.99 cm)
Framed: 4 5/16 × 3 3/4 × 5/16 inches (10.95 × 9.53 × 0.79 cm)
Framed: 4 5/16 × 3 3/4 × 5/16 inches (10.95 × 9.53 × 0.79 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.422
InscribedIn cast-brass frame, with Cornelius Studio yellow label on reverse: "Daguerreotype / Miniatures, / By R. Cornelius, / Eighth Street, above Chesnut [sic], / Philadelphia."
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DescriptionImage of a woman wearing dark colored top with light lace collar. Her hair is parted in the center and she looks directly at the viewer. This quarter plate daguerreotype is housed in a brass frame with a scroll and frond motif and artist's studio label adhered to verso.Published ReferencesWilliam F. Stapp, Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the Dawn of Photography (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press/National Portrait Gallery, 1983); "Editors' Table," Godey's Lady's Book 20 (April 1840): 190; and "Daguerreotype Miniatures," National Gazette (June 26, 1840): 2.
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