Description: Ambrotype 1850s, 6th-Plate, 3-1/4" x 2-3/4". Glare is from my cellphone camera and zooming in on details seems to have washed the color out of some photos taken. ---Where to start? But first, what a vision she must have looked like walking in this dress!!! ---Spectacular color composition; green dress, red curtains, purple tablecloth, and blue sky with hint of clouds in background. ---Flesh-tinted skin tones on her hands/fingers, with pink-tinted cheeks and lips and a hint of pink on her forehead. Hint of maybe sage green eyes. ---Gorgeous green dress with dark green or gray small squares. Zooming in on the geometric dress pattern, the squares are not solid color but they are varigated squares, darker at the top and bottom of the squares. ---Fan-shaped, pleated bodice with point-dropped very tiny waist. Cartridge pleats attaching skirt to bodice. Row of buttons from neckline all the way down. Slope-shouldered sleeves, with ruffles in upper arm sleeves and "poufs" in lower arm sleeves. Lace inner sleeve tapering down to snug lace wrist cuffs. Ribbon around the sleeve. Lace collar of the same pattern as lace in sleeves. ---Brooch has been gold tinted with a beaded center. Zooming in to take pictures, it's noticeable that the "bead" in the center of the brooch has a light reflection on it, like the pearl in the "Girl With A Pearl" painting by Vermeer. Was the photographer or his tint artist so accomplished to have painted a reflection on that tiny bead in the center of the brooch, or was something affixed to the brooch itself that actually reflected light? (Sometimes I'll open up a dag or ambro to get better pictures, but I dare not on this one.) ---Center-parted hair, smoothly drawn down and back over ears, with hint of ribbons in the back. It seems to be ribbons, or maybe it's a very full low-placed hair bun. ---Red curtains with a darker red leaf pattern. ---Purple tablecloth under her arm, maybe some type of Grecian pattern. ---Blue background with hints of white clouds between her shoulders and the curtain and right side of picture, and higher.
Price: 300 USD
Location: York, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2024-12-15T19:28:49.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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Item Specifics
Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Antique: Yes
Image Orientation: Portrait
Size: 6th-Plate, 2/3-4" x 3/1-4"
Image Color: Color
Material: Glass, Metal
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Framing: Matted & Framed
Subject: Costumes, Hobbies & Leisure, USA, Vanity Fair, Women
Vintage: Yes
Type: Ambrotype Photograph
Year of Production: 1850s
Format: Ambrotype - Mat - Glass - Preserver
Photographer: Unknown Photographer
Number of Photographs: 1
Theme: Americana, Art, Cities & Towns, Community Life, Continents & Countries, Cultures & Ethnicities, Domestic & Family Life, Fashion, Glamor, History, Hobbies & Leisure, Portrait, Social History
Style: Documentary, Figurative Art, Photojournalism
Features: Hand Tinted, One of a Kind (OOAK)
Featured Person/Artist: Unknown Person
Time Period Manufactured: 1850s
Production Technique: Ambrotype Photograph
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
