Elizabeth Cuthbert Roberts at the age of five years and four months daguerreotype, 1857
Image: 1/6 plate; Young girl seated on a wooden posing chair, with hair parted in the center and falling in shoulder-length ringlets around her face, wearing a patterned dress with diagonal checks on the bodice and horizontal checks and a growth tuck on the skirt, with short ruffled sleeves gathered...
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Collection: | Roberts family Photographs (#3652) |
Date: | 1857 |
Dimensions: | 7.0 x 8.3 cm 2 3/4 x 3 9/32 in 8.1 x 9.3 cm 3 3/16 x 3 19/32 in |
Format: | Electronic |
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Copyright: | Public domain |
Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/6891 |
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Image: 1/6 plate; Young girl seated on a wooden posing chair, with hair parted in the center and falling in shoulder-length ringlets around her face, wearing a patterned dress with diagonal checks on the bodice and horizontal checks and a growth tuck on the skirt, with short ruffled sleeves gathered at the shoulders, and the jagged edges of a petticoat showing under the skirt hem, white stockings to mid-calf. Preserver: Straight but more ornate (1850s). Mat: Double elliptical, with sandy finish (mid 1840-50). Case: Leather-covered wood frame embossed with a geometric design both front and back, with interior gilded edge trim, a red velvet pinchpad, and a red velvet cushion embossed with a geometric design (ca. 1850). |
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