Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair Kilkenny Studio 4 1/2" in diameter

4 1/2" in diameter

sound and not very delicate

A few of them have numbers on reverse

my very favorite I've found

And then the real fur hat

Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair Kilkenny Studio 4 1/2" in diameterI 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