Unidentified seated gentleman wearing a tartan cravat

Description

1/9 plate daguerreotype, depicting a seated man wearing spectacles and a tartan cravat, mounted, by American Daguerreotype Institution (J.J.E. Mayall) of London, 1847 - 1855

Museum reference

T.2023.44.2.27

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Daguerreotype

Production information

American Daguerreotype Institution, Maker
London, England, Northern Europe

Date

1847 - 1855

Materials

Copper, silver-plated, iodised, Chloride of bromide, Sodium thiosulphate

Physical description

1/9 plate daguerreotype

Associations

Howarth-Loomes Collection

Exhibitions

• Photography: A Victorian Sensation (19 Jun 2015 - 22 Nov 2015)
  National Museum of Scotland

Credit

The Bernard Howarth-Loomes Collection. Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by H M Government from the estate of Ethel Alma Howarth-Loomes and allocated to National Museums Scotland, 2023.