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Rare oval leather Union Case containing a daguerreotype
A very beautiful, enhanced portrait of a woman.
The woman wears many jewels with gold highlights and is dressed in a black silk taffeta and lace dress.
She is holding in her hands an oval Union Case with a pinchbeck setting.
The Union case in black leather is stamped "Patented SGDG"
Inside, the daguerreotype is framed with pinchbeck and, around the velvet, the leather is marked with a gold garland.
The daguerreotype was the first photographic process, developed by Nicéphore Niépce and later Louis Daguerre, and introduced to the world (except the United Kingdom) by France in 1839. It is both a negative and a positive, hence its characteristic mirror effect. In the 19th century, they were also poetically called "mirrors that remember."
Daguerreotype "Portrait of a Woman" enhanced in its Union Case
Rare oval leather Union Case containing a daguerreotype
A very beautiful, enhanced portrait of a woman.
The woman wears many jewels with gold highlights and is dressed in a black silk taffeta and lace dress.
She is holding in her hands an oval Union Case with a pinchbeck setting.
The Union case in black leather is stamped "Patented SGDG"
Inside, the daguerreotype is framed with pinchbeck and, around the velvet, the leather is marked with a gold garland.
The daguerreotype was the first photographic process, developed by Nicéphore Niépce and later Louis Daguerre, and introduced to the world (except the United Kingdom) by France in 1839. It is both a negative and a positive, hence its characteristic mirror effect. In the 19th century, they were also poetically called "mirrors that remember."