Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Ambrotype |
Title |
Unidentified Soldier |
Catalog Number |
FIC2009.00129 |
Description |
Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied color of a man seated in uniform, 3/4 pose facing viewer's right, looking at camera, hair parted on subject's left side, cut above ears, moustache and goatee; cheeks tinted pink, double-breasted uniform frock coat, buttoned, twelve buttons visible, tinted gold, standing collar with gold tinted insignia, white standing shirt collar visible; left hand in lap, right arm resting on table, tablecloth has pattern, legs crossed at knee left over right; Oval gilt mat embossed with scroll motif, cover glass is missing and image plate is exposed and separated from case; thermoplastic union case, raised nautical motif, purple velvet door pad with central foliate motif embossing, bottom sections of case missing, casemaker's printed advertisement in image section reads: "A.P. CRITCHLOW & CO.,/Manufacturers of/Daguerreotype Cases./A.P.C. & Co./Are the Original Inventors of the/Composition for the Union Case,/(so called,) including all the various shades/of color and fineness of texture pecu-/liar to their manufacture and of the/Embracing Riveted Hinges, thus/securing them from breaking out/as do others that are inserted/with or without a/metal brace./Hinge Patented/Oct. 14, 1856 & April 21, 1857." |
Medium |
Brass/Glass/Metal/Paint/Photographic Emulsion/Thermoplastic/Velvet |
Studio |
Unknown |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Owner Regiment |
Regiment unknown |
Provenance |
Found in the drawer of a bureau bought at auction by Mrs. Marcellus Whaley of Columbia, South Carolina. |
People |
unidentified soldier |
Search Terms |
Confederate Army |
Subjects |
Ambrotypes auctions Cased photographs Photographic studios Photographs Photography Soldiers War Civil War, U.S. |