Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Serious young man holding photographic book].
Call Number
D East 62/GC140/Box 01/Small GA 2006.01920
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc9019sf39w
Publisher
n.d. [ca. 1858].
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1858
Extent
1 item ; sheet 3 5/8 x 3 1/8 in. [leather case].
Source Acquisition
Gift of Donald Farren, Princeton University Class of 1958.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Unidentified Artist [photographer]
Medium: Tintypes
Campus holdings: A copy of the depicted book, "American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype," is held in the Library's Graphic Arts Department.
Depiction: Seated young man holding copy of the fifth edition of "American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype," by S.D. Humphrey, 1858 [bound in moire patterned cloth].
Item description: Housed in red leather casing (carved oval motif) with embossed red velvet; hinges missing from case.
Provenance: Purchased by Mr. Farren from Andrew Cahan's catalogue no. 378.

Discovery Information

Subject
Books in art
Portraits, American—19th century
Humphrey, S. D. (Samuel Dwight), 1823-1883. American hand book of the daguerreotype..

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/021d62e7-9ad6-420e-8f45-963e0d5eb03f/manifest