Content/DescriptionHalf length, seated portrait of young woman wearing dark dress with velvet sleeves and lace collar with a large cameo. Seated in painted chair.
Details
Title
[Young woman; member of the Bunce family.]
Published
ca. 1856
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
1 photograph : ambrotype ; quarter plate, visible image 8.8 x 6.5 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum backing. Face slightly hand colored. Earrings highlighted with gold. Mat: decorative oval. Preserver: decorative.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Motif: Parting of Hafed and Hinda or Lalla Rookh (Krainik no. 35, Rinhart no. 239). Material: black thermoplastic. Dimensions: 12.4 x 10 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif. Notes: [Henning and Eymann], die-engravers; Holmes, Booth & Hayden. Notes: spine label - 272 (from prior owner).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">On mat: Dean & Emerson Patent Applied for / Worcester, Mass No. 19. Printed in case well (letterpress): HOLMES, BOOTH & HAYDENS' / DAGUERREOTYPE, / PHOTOGRAPHIC / AND / Ambrotype Goods, / Of every description. On case exterior (LL, under figures): HENNING & EYMANN, N.Y. [die-engravers]. Accompanying note (handwritten, modern): One of the members of the Bunce family of New York, relatives of Willametta Hoff Cook, wife of famous San Francisco gold rush lawyer, Elisha Cook.</physfacet>;;;
Contents
Image 2: During treatment: printed text advertising Holmes, Booth & Hayden, from image well of case. (Scanned from a 35mm slide.)
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