Content/DescriptionHalf length portrait of young woman wearing dark dress with wavy line accents and jewelry (gold earrings and a brooch). She is almost certainly a sister of Mary Sherwood Hopkins (Mrs. Mark Hopkins), and is probably Lydia Sherwood Crittenden.
Title
[Unidentified woman; a relative of the Mark Hopkins family.]
Published
ca. 1848
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1905.16242:043--CASE
Type
Image
Extent
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 8.9 x 6.6 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Dress worn by sitter is very similar to that worn by Mrs. Mark Hopkins (Mary Sherwood) in item :039. Also compare portrait of Lydia P. Crittenden (nee Sherwood), item :008.
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Plate: hands, face, jewelery, and collar slightly hand colored. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Motif: floral - grapes, fruit, birds and nest. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 11.6 x 9.2 cm. Pad: brown silk. Notes: spine label - 470 (from prior owner).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Accompnaying note (handwritten, by Zelda Mackay): Unknown friend or relative of Mrs. Mark Hopkins. She wears identical dress as Mrs. Hopkins....</physfacet>;;;
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