Portrait of a shipmaster

daguerreotype

PHOTOGRAPHS - DAGUERREOTYPES
glass; metal; paper
overall: 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 x 1/4 in.

Daguerreotype in brass frame; portrait of a shipmaster, standing; tinted cheeks, man leaning on capstan and holding telescope; man resembles pictures of New London shipowner Richard H. Chapell (1826-1874), but identification not confirmed.


2005.90.1

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Shipmasters
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