Untitled (half length portrait of African American woman, seated and leaning against tapestry-covered table)

Unidentified Artist

1840s-1850s

Hand-colored sixth-plate daguerreotype

Fogg Museum

A seated African American woman with dark hair and earrings wears a dark dress and rests her left arm on a tapestry-covered table. She is framed by an ornate gold oval mat. A seated African American woman with dark hair and earrings wears a dark dress and rests her left arm on a tapestry-covered table. She is framed by an ornate gold oval mat. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs