Daguerreotype: 1990-5037_A83 1853-1853-07-28

Collection: National Media Museum, Bradford, United Kingdom i
Language: English
Type: Other
Deeplink: http://www.daguerreobase.org/en/type/93ce58e2-7d64-3a94-5a9e-1c6e5439f691

Identification

1990-5037_A83

Image description

A red velvet covered toiletry box with decorative gold tooling and grooves with an engraved silver gilt plaque inset into the top. Hidden inside the box lid behind a white padded velvet cover and set into red velvet is a three quarter length, daguerreotype portrait of a man looking to the viewer's left. The man is George Dolland Junior Esq 1853. He holds a velvet top hat, gloves and gold tipped cane. He wears a black jacket and black waistcoat and white shirt, he has a loosely tied blue bow tie and a white handkerchief in his left hand pocket, he wears a gold signet ring on little finger of his right hand. He has a chin beard

Dated

Begin: 1853
End: 1853-07-28

Tags

young; man; three quarter portrait; standing; chin beard; bow tie; gold button; jacket; waistcoat; shirt; handkerchief; top hat; black velvet; white gloves; cane; checked fabric; watch chain; signet ring; wavy hair; side parting; landscape backdrop; fabric covered plinth; hand coloured; gold highlight

Links

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Dollond_and_Co
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/collections/imu-search-page/record-details/?TitInventoryNo=11898&querytype=field&thumbnails=on&irn=28006
http://www.vauxhallcivicsociety.org.uk/history/john-dollond-1706-1761-peter-dollond-1730-1820-george-dollond-1774-1852/

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Object

Identification

1990-5037_A83

Number of plates

Image description

Subject name

Dolland, George

Inscription

On the exterior top of the velvet box is a decorative silver guilt plaque engraved with: 'George DOLLAND Esq to his wife Fanny on her coming of age July 28, 1853'

Keyword technique

daguerreotype

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