Early 9th Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting of Young Chlld with Hat and Mirror des moines and such a beautiful one

and such a beautiful one

gives it a sort of grotesque sweetness that I think makes it pretty much perfect

upon whose knee the dog’s paw so gently rests

I of course like the idea that the item being removed may have been teeth

Early 9th Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting of Young Chlld with Hat and Mirror des moines and such a beautiful oneThe person I purchased this early ninth plate daguerreotype of a folk art painting of young child speculated that both painting and, likely the daguerreotype, too, were done by Erastus Salisbury Field (1805 1900), an itinerant folk portrait painter primarily active in the 1830's, who traveled throughout western Massachusetts and the Connecticut Valley. In about 1841, Mr. Field moved with his family to Greenwich Village, NYC, where he opened a studio,