Moody, Much Tarnished Half Plate Daguerreotype Portrait of Woman with Ringlets bearded lacquered papier mache

lacquered papier mache

clearly Victorian era

one can almost hear the cicada singing away

This is one of two hard-backed math notebooks with marbleized paper covers and printed endpapers with "A Collection of Arithmetical Tables for the Use of Schools" of a Samuel Gifford studying at Mr

Moody, Much Tarnished Half Plate Daguerreotype Portrait of Woman with Ringlets bearded lacquered papier macheIt's not too often I come across a half plate daguerreotype 4 1 4" x 5 1 2" this one much tarnished, not surprisingly as it was clearly never cased. I like it for the color including deep browns and blues too, best seen in details and surface of gestural smudges and scratches, which together have the effect of making this young woman, already rather determined looking, feel as if willing herself into existence stubbornly resisting disappearing