Three quarter seated portrait of a lady with a her right hand against her chin she wears a black beaded bracelet on both wrists (jet?) and holds a fan in her left hand. She has her hair up with a bun at the back with a central parting and side curls. She has what appears to be a 'jet' brooch on the neckline of her dress and she wears earrings. She wears a black pagoda style, buttoned down jacket over a white lace trimmed cuffed blouse, with a black and white lace collar and a full pleated skirt. A necklace or cord hangs round her neck. She has her right elbow on a fabric covered table where a figure of Chinese male doll or ceramic /wooden figurine stands and her she looks to the viewer. Plain background. Handcoloured.
J.B Newlands opened a studio in Calcutta in 1852 for daguerreotype studio at 6 London Buildings, Calcutta. He had a studio there between 1852-54. he was also based in Australia see links.
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Three quarter seated portrait of a lady with a her right hand against her chin she wears a black beaded bracelet on both wrists (jet?) and holds a fan in her left hand. She has her hair up with a bun at the back with a central parting and side curls. She has what appears to be a 'jet' brooch on the neckline of her dress and she wears earrings. She wears a black pagoda style, buttoned down jacket over a white lace trimmed cuffed blouse, with a black and white lace collar and a full pleated skirt. A necklace or cord hangs round her neck. She has her right elbow on a fabric covered table where a figure of Chinese male doll or ceramic /wooden figurine stands and her she looks to the viewer. Plain background. Handcoloured.
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No inscription but on case front is gold tooling lettering within a gold tool oval shape read: 'NEWLANDS DAGERREOTYPE - CALCUTTA'.
J. W. Newland had practiced as a daguerreotypist in North and South America, the Pacific and Australia, before establishing a studio in Calcutta in about 1850. Although his studio was successful throughout the 1850s, Newland himself died in 1857, one of the early victims of the Indian Mutiny.
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