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Quarter Plate Daguerreotype by Marcus Aurelius Root: Identified Elderly Woman, Dated 1851....
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Exceptional portrait by a famed photographer.
Quarter Plate Daguerreotype by Marcus Aurelius Root: Identified Elderly Woman, Dated 1851. Root was taught the daguerrian process by pioneer photographer Robert Cornelius in 1840. He owned a series of galleries in several American cities before purchasing the gallery of John Mayall, at 140 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia, in 1846, the point of origin of this image. Root subsequently opened galleries in New York and Washington and in 1864 penned one of the seminal works on the medium of photography, "The Camera and the Pencil". The woman wears a lace collar and gloves with a large painted porcelain broach at the throat and a very fancy bonnet of lace and ribbon. Neatly identified in period ink script on the bottom edge of the case "Mrs. G. Y. McAllister 1851." Finest quality, perfect condition. Original seal present, neatly opened to clean cover glass. Housed in the original scarce form floral leather case, hinge split, else about perfect. Root's 140 Chestnut St. logo embossed on the red velvet pad. Very nice portrait by an important photographer.Auction Info
2010 May Grand Format Political & Americana Auction #6035 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
May, 2010
22nd
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