Portrait of a Woman

c. 1855

British 19th Century

Associated Names
British 19th Century

Artist

The image depicts a woman from the waist up. She is seated, with one arm resting on the back of a wooden chair and the other hand placed on an ornately patterned tablecloth. The woman has a calm expression with a slight smile. Her hair is styled in a neat, middle-parted manner around her ears. She is wearing a long-sleeved, dark dress with pleated details on the bodice and a full skirt. The woman has a bracelet on her visible wrist. The background is plain and dark, and the photo is framed in a rectangular mat with a red velvet border and gold edging.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 9.5 × 6.8 cm (3 3/4 × 2 11/16 in.)
    mat: 10.7 × 8.1 cm (4 3/16 × 3 3/16 in.)
    case (closed): 12.07 × 9.84 × 2.06 cm (4 3/4 × 3 7/8 × 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.1.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ashworth Family, England; (sale, England, 2017); (Jason Wright, Huddersfield, England); NGA purchase, 2019.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on bottom edge of case, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite on applied label: PD372D

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