Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair carved wood feet (And between her turtleneck

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executed in lush

Both are of the same design--lotus on the front and Japanese characters on the back

I rather like that he didn't just stick to birds found in Maine

I have searched but not found anything about John

Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair carved wood feet (And between her turtleneckI 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