Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair carved wood feet but adding their own elements

but adding their own elements and adaptations

Both are of the same design--lotus on the front and Japanese characters on the back

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

I find the form really beautiful

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Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair carved wood feet but adding their own elementsI 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