Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair barbers brush with super high high chair

with super high high chair and that great blue pattern on the baby's dress

Louis Kahn

And this one

The slate on the back is blank

Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair barbers brush with super high high chairI think daguerreotypes of paintings are such special things, documents of a very particular moment in time, when silhouettes and painted portraits were just giving way to photographic ones; as such, to me, they represent a wonderful convergence of both technologies and sensibilities, and feel supremely tender and very very human. This one, a ninth plate, c. 1840s 50s I would think, captures a folk art painting of on older man in profile seated in a