2007.219.54.20: Untitled (woman with bonnet and lace collar, seated in wooden chair, half-length)
PhotographsA woman rests an arm on a table on the left with her hands resting in her lap. She wears a plain buttoned up dress, white sleeves underneath, with lace collar. Her straight hair is parted in the middle, tucked behind a white lace bonnet. Her face appears content, almost smiling, light eyes, facing forward looking at the viewer, her body is turned three-quarter toward the left in the chair. Her cheeks are delicately hand-colored. She also wears dark lace fingerless gloves and a black string around her neck, that she’s holding in her lap. The background is undescribed.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2007.219.54.20
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Untitled (woman with bonnet and lace collar, seated in wooden chair, half-length)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1840-1850s
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/323801
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Hand-colored sixth plate daguerreotype
- Technique
- Daguerreotype
- Dimensions
- 8.26 x 6.99 cm (3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Janet and Daniel Tassel
- Accession Year
- 2007
- Object Number
- 2007.219.54.20
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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