Early 9th Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting of Young Chlld with Hat and Mirror antique school tool Please note

Please note

nicely rounded arches to the cage and a very round ball inside

which seem either to be hard plastic or bakelite

and right in keeping with my obsession with 19th century penmanship

MA in 1853

Early 9th Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting of Young Chlld with Hat and Mirror antique school tool Please noteThe 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,