Beschreibung:

Quarter plate ambrotype of a young girl wearing an off-the-shoulder plaid dress, standing with her arm around a porcelain dog figurine. (Spotting to mat.) -- Quarter plate ambrotype of a young boy standing next to a chair wearing a boldly patterned shirt and striped belt with ornate buckle. (Spotting to mat.) -- Quarter plate ambrotype of a distinguished-looking man wearing a stiff collar and bushy sideburns. (Flaking to emulsion and spotting to mat.) -- And 3 other quarter plate ambrotypes. Conditions vary. All housed in a 17 x 15 1/2 in. wooden wall frame (wear to surface including some scratches and loss to finish, adhesive residue to upper edge). Provenance:Eugene R. Groves Collection of 19th Century Photography