Very early portrait from the earliest Richard Beard studio. This was taken in the month following the opening of the studio. Taken with Wolcott's reflecting camera (this used a curved mirror to focus the image rather than a lens). The mounting and frame are very much more elaborate than later photographs from Beard's studio. See also PBM.F.00030
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Head and shoulders portrait of a young woman with dark ringlets, looking to her right. With a white shawl, thin dark necklace, brooch, pale dress.
Subject name
Coleman
Inscription
On back, hand-written in 1841 and rewritten in 1920: 'J Ela Coleman ... 20 1841 ...Age 19 years 5½ months 1841' and 'S Mildred J Young 1920'
On printed label: PATENT PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES taken by WOLCOTT'S Reflecting Apparatus at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION Regent Street.
Reference: John F. Goddard, “Application of the Daguerreotype to the Taking of Likenesses from the Life,” May 1841
Mit Beard in London beginnt in Europa die Periode der daguerreschen Ateliers, sein Etablissement war das erste professionelle Fotostudio auf dem Kontinent (März 1841). Er hatte das Patent zum Daguerreotypieren in England und eröffnete in rascher Folge eine Zahl von Ateliers.
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