Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair Kilkenny Studio with partial corrugation (visible on

with partial corrugation (visible on the neck and lower portion of the body) made by leaving construction coils unobliterated

my very favorite I've found

A few of them have numbers on reverse

and the pink one a pig

sound and not very delicate

Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair Kilkenny Studio with partial corrugation (visible onI think daguerreotypes of paintings are such special things, documents of a very particular moment in time, when silhouettes and painted portraits were just giving way to photographic ones; as such, to me, they represent a wonderful convergence of both technologies and sensibilities, and feel supremely tender and very very human. This one, a ninth plate, c. 1840s 50s I would think, captures a folk art painting of on older man in profile seated in a