Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair Kilkenny Studio and the pink one a

and the pink one a pig

A few of them have numbers on reverse

And then the real fur hat

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

and would be used as gambling chips or tokens

Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair Kilkenny Studio and the pink one aI 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