Brass Player by Van Loan
SOLD March 2005 |
Sixth plate daguerreotype of gent holding an unusual brass instrument, anonymous American ca. 1855, housed in full case with leather-repaired spine and brass mat impressed "VAN LOAN". With light applied tinting in red.
I assume this plate is the work of Samuel Van Loan of the Philadelphia area. It gives a crisp rendering of the instrument in question, which someone has suggested might be a "cornopean" and predecessor of the cornet.
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