Showing posts with label 1840's fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1840's fashion. Show all posts

Sunday, January 27, 2019

Monday, October 29, 2018

Daguerreotype Portrait of 11-Year-Old Elihu Vedder Dressed As a Schoolboy (1847)


Daguerreotype portrait of 11-year-old Elihu Vedder dressed as a schoolboy, c. 1847. He would go on to be a noted American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet.

Source: Archives of American Art.

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Painting of a Lost Daguerreotype of Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant Probably Taken at Camp Salubrity in Louisiana (1845)


Painting of a lost daguerreotype of Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant probably taken at Camp Salubrity in Louisiana, 1845. By artist T. V. Chominski. From McClure's Magazine.

Saturday, August 12, 2017

Copy Negative of a Daguerreotype Portrait of Two Unidentified Women (1840′s/1850′s)


Copy negative of a daguerreotype portrait of two unidentified women, c. 1840′s/1850′s. Copy negative probably taken by Washington, D.C., photographer C.M. Bell in the late 1800's. Originally titled "Anderson."

Source: Library of Congress.

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Copy Negative of a Daguerreotype Portrait of a Woman Identified as Mrs. Clagett (1840′s/1850′s)


Copy negative of a daguerreotype portrait of a woman identified as Mrs. Clagett, c. 1840′s/1850′s. Copy negative taken by Washington, D.C., photographer C.M. Bell in the 1890′s.

Source: Library of Congress.

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Portrait of French President and Emperor Napoleon III (1840′s/1850′s)


Portrait of French president and emperor Napoleon III, c. 1840′s/1850′s. Attributed to Mathew Brady. Possibly originally a daguerreotype.

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