Unknown American Daguerrian
Portrait of a Young Woman, c.1850

A Half Plate Monochromatic daguerreotype, with a blueish hue around the margins, showing a three-quarter length portrait of a young woman, wearing a checked dress, a black lace veil, bracelets, and earrings, leaning on a table with a floral table-cloth, plain oval aperture brass mat, lightly engraved around the margins, decorated brass preserver, velvet-lined, morocco leather case with floral decorations, missing upper case.