Artist unknown

Adell in checkered dress

1/4 plate - 2 3/4 x 3 1/4" OVERALL

This ambrotype inclues a woman in a checkered dress, posed on a chair or couch with her arm resting on its back. In her other hand she holds a cluster of flowers. The ambrotype itself, a ¼ plate sized photograph, is housed within an ornate frame that opens and closes like a book. The item also possesses a poem from Adell in a separate envelope. Ambrotypes are a form of wet collodion photography that use glass placed against a dark background to create an image. Along with tintypes, another wet collodion technique, they replaced daguerreotypes as popular options due to being cheaper and quicker to produce.

Last half 19th C.

Gift of Dr. Bancroft

1995.307