Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 16

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(CHILDREN)
Must-be-seen group of 12 charming quarter-plate daguerreotypes and one ambrotype of privileged children, including mirror images of a young boy, whose portrait is rendered as a daguerreotype and an ambrotype; an infant in a high chair; a portrait of "Mamie" (whose mother is surreptiously holding her steady); a portrait of a girl (who is holding a bouquet of flowers and wearing a gilt-highlighted pendant) and her brothers, one of whom is holding a net; a boy and his dog; one is in a mother-of-pearl case and the remaining images in leather cases. 1850s