Content/DescriptionHalf length portrait of a woman seated next to a table. She wearing a bonnet with spectacles perched on top, and is holding knitting work and a card with 86 scratched over it on the plate (her age?). Several books are on the table and a cane is in front.
Title
[Unidentified elderly woman.]
Published
ca. 1850
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1981.027:006--CASE
Type
Image
Extent
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; one-third plate, visible image 8.7 x 7.5 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Plate size indicates likely British or European origin.
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Plate: table cover slightly hand colored. Mat: octagonal.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Motif: Curved Octagon with Scroll Center (Rinhart no. 219). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 12 x 10.8 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed single leaf motif.</physfacet>;;;
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