Apr 27, 2023 - Sale 2634

Sale 2634 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
(EARLY PRACTITIONERS--DAGUERREOTYPES)
A rare portrait of daguerreotypist Morris Moses. Salted paper print, the image measuring 9x4 1/8 inches (22.9x10.5 cm.), with Moses' name in pencil on verso. Circa 1855

Moses' studio was located in Trenton, New Jersey. One of his daguerreotype portraits is housed at Harvard University.

Exhibited: Paper Promises: Early American Photography February 27-May 27, 2018, The J. Paul Getty Museum

Reproduced: Mazie M. Harris, Paper Promises: Early American Photography (Getty Publications), p. 83