Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Ambrotype |
Title |
Unidentified Group (Man and Woman) |
Catalog Number |
2012.012.00003 |
Description |
Quarter-plate ambrotype with applied color, of a man and a woman; the man is seated to the left and the woman to the right. The man is posed at a slightly 3/4 angle to the right; he is looking past the camera to the left; left arm is to the side, with the left hand resting on the left leg; right arm is behind the woman, presumably draped across a chair back; hair is worn in a moderate back-brushed style; cheeks are tinted pink; beard but no mustache; wearing an standing collar with a horizontal necktie slightly assymetrical; slack coat open over vest and loose trousers; women is posed facing slightly to the left, also looking past the camera to the left; hair is in a pinched version of the wing style popular in the time period; cheeks are tinted pink; wearing a wide collar with a brooch in the center; bodice has basque sleeves with a bishop undersleeve that matches the same material as the collar; skirt is full; arms are at a slight angle to the sides, and forearms and hands are resting on her lap; case that this image was once framed in is missing; metal mat is double elliptical style, with stamped preserver around edges; |
Medium |
Glass/Metal/Paint |
Studio |
Unknown |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Owner Regiment |
Not applicable |
Provenance |
This photograph is one of 40 passed down to the donor from the Purse family of Savannah, Georgia. |
People |
unidentified man unidentified civilian unidentified woman Faries Family Gugel Family Melton Family Pilkington Family Pindar Family Purse Family |
Search Terms |
Savannah, Georgia |
Subjects |
Ambrotypes Cased photographs Civilians Domestic life Men Mourning Mourning clothing & dress Photographs Wet plate negatives Women |