Anne Sherman Artist: Unknown

1876

American Paintings and Sculpture

Not on view


The introduction of the daguerreotype to the United States in 1839 brought a new and exciting type of portrait that prompted dramatic changes to the miniature genre. This hand-colored photograph imitates the soft coloring of watercolor miniatures. An opalotype, this portrait is a photograph on opal glass (an opaque white glass) that was sensitized with gelatin-bromide and tinted with pale washes of color. It is now disfigured by peeling emulsion, but its maker’s aims are still apparent.

Medium

Watercolor on opaque white glass

Dimensions

4 1/4 × 3 1/8 in. (10.8 × 7.9 cm)

Credit Line

Yale University Art Gallery, Provenance Unknown

Accession Number

1988.8.1

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Miniatures

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Bibliography
  • Robin Jaffee Frank, Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000), 283, 285, 287, fig. 142
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

miniatures (paintings), portraits

Subject

dresses flowers (plants) gowns hair hairstyles women

Signed

LR (script): "J.M. 1876."

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