Luthera Maria Bromley
SubjectPortrait of
Luthera Maria Bromley
1846 - 1847
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
Date1847
MediumDaguerreotype; silver-coated copper plate behind brass window mat and glass plate in tooled leather-covered wooden case. Purple silk pad in left side of open case with brown thread stitched into it.
DimensionsPlate (image plate height x width): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4in. (8.3 × 7cm)
Other (case height x width x depth): 3 3/4 × 3 1/4 × 1/2in. (9.5 × 8.3 × 1.3cm)
Other (case height x width x depth): 3 3/4 × 3 1/4 × 1/2in. (9.5 × 8.3 × 1.3cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Nellie G. Brown
DescriptionSixth plate daguerreotype of one-year-old Luthera Maria Bromley, who is wearing a long white dress and sitting on a patterned carpet. Probably taken to mark the occasion of her first birthday. She died shortly thereafter.
The stitches on the purple silk pad possibly held a lock of the child's hair.
The stitches on the purple silk pad possibly held a lock of the child's hair.
Object number1960.36.5
InscribedHandwritten on slip of paper tucked behind image plate: "My mothers first baby / Luthera Bromley."In a different hand on same slip of paper: "Son [?] of / Stephen Decatur / & Julia Fitch"
On View
Not on view
1845-1850
