Daguerreotype

Description

1/4 plate tinted daguerreotype, depicting a young girl in a white dress, sitting in a child's cane chair propped on an adult chair, cased, by Richard Lowe of Cheltenham, 1850 - 1856

Museum reference

T.2023.44.2.29

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Daguerreotype

Production information

Lowe, Richard, c. 1813 - 1856 (fl.)., Photographer
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, Northern Europe

Date

1850 - 1856

Materials

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

Physical description

1/4 plate tinted daguerreotype, mounted

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.