Daguerreotype of a mother and young child, late 1850s.

A$300 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[UK or Australia : s.n., 1855-59]. Quarter-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 90 x 66 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat, housed in a half case with embossed floral design; the daguerreotype has a slight tarnish halo, and some tiny mould spiders beneath the cover glass, but is otherwise in very good condition an arresting image.

• Binding: Hardcover

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