Gent with Cravat
SOLD March 2006 |
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a young man wearing a tie-like cravat and adopting a jaunty pose. Housed in a half case. Anonymous American, late 1840s.
A crisp plate with just the slightest touch of solarization to his shirt on left. There is a pinhead-sized plate eruption to the right of his head.
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