Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair carved wood feet and the rather manic decorative

and the rather manic decorative flourishes that animate every square inch of the piece

(And between her turtleneck

expanding in the first quarter of the 20th century to become "The Greatest Sporting Goods Store in the World

which turns into a seascape

In addition to being wonderfully primitive

Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair carved wood feet and the rather manic decorativeI 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