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

4 1/2" in diameter

and the pink one a pig

A few of them have numbers on reverse

And then the real fur hat

8 1/2" t x 2 1/16" w x 1" d

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