Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair barbers brush Louis Kahn

Louis Kahn

And this one

one can wear this guy around

The wood is aged and there are a few spots of what I think is a little white paint on the side and back

I found what appears to be an exact match of this lovely little bone and brass folding ruler that dates it to 1820 or so

Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair barbers brush Louis KahnI think daguerreotypes of paintings are such special things, documents of a very particular moment in time, when silhouettes and painted portraits were just giving way to photographic ones; as such, to me, they represent a wonderful convergence of both technologies and sensibilities, and feel supremely tender and very very human. This one, a ninth plate, c. 1840s 50s I would think, captures a folk art painting of on older man in profile seated in a