Prestidigitation
SOLD March 2006 |
Sixth plate daguerreotype of man with hands in a very strange position, ca. 1850. Housed in a leather half case.
Looking as if he were about to perform a conjuring trick, this gent is probably just a victim of the daguerreotype's uncontrolled veracity.
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