Early 9th Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting of Young Chlld with Hat and Mirror antique school tool I realize it would be

I realize it would be good

reiterating the grids in many of them

which seem either to be hard plastic or bakelite

and the whiskers are pretty excellent too

but making one wonder a bit about the context in which this was made and hung

Early 9th Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting of Young Chlld with Hat and Mirror antique school tool I realize it would beThe 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,