John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901)

John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901)

FAMILY PORTRAIT, c.1847-1855. Half plate, hand-coloured daguerreotype portrait of a seated matriarch, her daughter standing behind her and flanked by two young male children, in plain brass arched top mount, with some spotting to plate and light tarnishing to lower margin, housed in a side-hinged red morocco case with American Daguerreotype Institution, 433 West Strand gilt embossed label on lid.