Content/DescriptionHalf length portrait as a girl, perhaps in her teens. She wears a dress with a round, open neck which appears to be striped silk. A closed book is on the table at her side.
Details
Title
[Maria Antoinette Briggs Haskell.]
Published
ca. 1845-1848
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; sixth plate, visible image 7 x 5.6 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Plate: book spine slightly hand colored in gold. Mat: textured dome topped (elliptical).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Motif: geometric - Curved Octagon with Scroll Center (Rinhart no. 219). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.9 cm. Pad: red silk.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Plate mark[UC]: Scovill's No 2. Inscribed on case pad (handwritten in ink): Maria / Antoinette / Briggs / 1860? [Date incorrect.]</physfacet>;;;
Provenance
ProvenanceGift of Jean Haskell, grandaughter of sitter.
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