![Unknown, [Portrait of an elderly woman in an Amish-like bonnet]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/53d62280-1ee2-4072-ac2f-885ef2b8faaf/full/!1400,/0/default.jpg)
[Portrait of an elderly woman in an Amish-like bonnet]
1855
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Dimensions
- 8.9 × 6.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-445547
Attributes identifying women's work were less varied and less often used than those for men, since most women in the mid-1800s did not work outside of the home. Age and experience are etched in the face of this older, bonneted woman who sits in a three-quarter, head-and-shoulders pose for the camera. This daguerreotype is a vivid likeness of its sitter, whose strong features are accentuated by the soft, even lighting.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1855 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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