HGO-01-004-A-3 [Drawer 47 in old database]
GUSN-254216
superior portrait of an eccentric-looking elderly woman, who strikes a pose which anticipates the 1860s: she wears spectacles, a dark bonnet, heavy fringed cape and elaborate rings and gazes contemplatively off-camera while holding a magnifying glass
women (female humans)
costume (mode of fashion)
jewelry
portraits
elderly
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs
DagID 575
1 daguerreotype
PC005
Daguerreotypes collection, c. 1845-1865
PC005.D06.328
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs
Item
HGO-01-004-A-3 [Drawer 47 in old database]
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