Content/DescriptionHalf length portrait, with a beard and mustache.
Title
[Alexander Davidson MacDonald.]
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 1975.059:083--CASE
Type
Image
Extent
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 8.8 x 6.4 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Case and ornate mat appear to be later than image. An oval mark is visible on plate from earlier mat, and the blackened case well indicates an ambrotype case, dating from 1854 or later.
Identification based upon comparison to carte de visite in MacDonald family album.
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: watch chain hand colored, shirt stud accented with stylus. Mat: decorative rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver: decorative.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: half case. Motif: floral - variant of Mixed Flowers (Rinhart no. 136). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 12.9 x 9.4 cm. Notes: blackened well (ambrotype case).</physfacet>;;;
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