Los 4030

Daguerreotypes
Portrait of a woman

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Photographer: Albert Sands Southworth (1811-1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808-1901). Portrait of a woman. Mid-1850s. Quarter plate, slightly tinted daguerreotype in leather case. 9 x 7 cm (11,5 x 10 cm).

Southworth & Hawes, the pioneering Boston-based daguerreotype partnership of Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, set new standards for photographic portraiture in mid-19th-century America. Renowned for their refined lighting, elegant compositions, and ability to capture psychological depth, their portraits reflect a rare fusion of technical mastery and artistic sensibility. Today, their work is considered among the finest achievements of the daguerreotype era. – Case with scratches, slight oxidation in edges, slightly stronger in left and lower edge, some spots on cover glass, otherwise in good condition.

Lit.: Brian Wallis, Grant B. Romer, eds. Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes. Göttingen: Steidl, compare ill. p. 1555 and 1556 for images featuring the same chair.