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Photograph (Daguerreotype, Oval Format) of a Man, c.1850

Inventory Number 91035


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.91035

Item type
Object
Provenance
Purchased from R. S. Clay in 1944. Part of the Clay Collection.
Other inscriptions
SEE NOTE
Physical material
Copper
Glass
Brass
Dimensions
Height: 95mm Width: 78mm
Inventory No
91035
Accession Number
1944-1

Description

Daguerreotype studio portrait of a man, seated three-quarter length, in a red-upholstered chair. Oval plate (daguerreotype plate actually oval); convex oval cover glass. Heavily tinted. Companion of xxxx (same man) and 30691 (his wife).