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Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair Kilkenny Studio native to south-west China

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native to south-west China

and the pink one a pig

sound and not very delicate

4 1/2" in diameter

Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair Kilkenny Studio native to south-west ChinaI 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

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