Portrait of a Woman

Artist Samuel Broadbent (American, 1810 - 1880)

Dateca. 1853-1855

MediumDaguerreotype

DimensionsPlate (stereo, quarter): 4 1/4 × 3 1/4 inches (10.8 × 8.26 cm)
Case (open): 8 1/4 × 5 × 1/2 inches (20.96 × 12.7 × 1.27 cm)
Case (closed): 5 × 4 1/8 × 7/8 inches (12.7 × 10.48 × 2.22 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.383

SignedOn tray, inside case, behind stereo component, in gold type: "From BROADBENT'S / Daguerrean Rooms / No. 136 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia." ; On stereo component, in gold type: "MASCHER'S IMPROVED STEREOSCOPE / PHILADA. / PATENT / MARCH 8TH 1853.".

InscribedOn paper liner, behind plate, in black type: "IMPROVED UNION CASES. / S. PECK'S PATENT, / October 3, 1854 / S. PECK & CO., / Of New Haven, Conn., / Are the sole manufacturers of the Im- / proved Union Cases, of which, the latest, / consists in the beautiful shades of color, / and fineness of texture, and of having / the hinges inserted in Metal; thus pre- / venting the breaking out of the hinge."

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DescriptionStereo images of a woman wearing a plaid dress with a wide lace collar and a shawl over her shoulders. She is seated in an ornate chair in front of a painted landscape backdrop and her arm rests on the table beside her. This quarter plate cased daguerreotype is housed in an oval brass mat inside of a thermoplastic case with a stereo viewer.

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