Creator(s)	Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891, daguerreotypist.
Title	[Three unidentified women]
Link to library catalog	http://catalog.bostonathenaeum.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=495614
Date created	[ca. 1850]
Publishing details	[Boston,]
Physical Description	1 photograph : half-plate daguerreotype, b&w ; mat with protector 14 x 10.8 cm., case 15.4 x 12 x 1.4 cm.
Summary	Full-length portraits of a seated elderly woman and two younger ladies, one seated and one standing. The older woman wears a white bonnet and holds a book. The two younger women, possibly sisters, wear the same dress. The younger seated woman holds a scroll in her right hand. The younger woman, who stands between the two seated women, wears a large cross on a long chain.
Notes	This half-plate daguerreotype is attributed to the Boston daguerreotypist John Adams Whipple based on studio furniture . Daguerreotype is covered by a plain double elliptical mat with an ornate protector and is housed in a daguerreotype case made of wood and covered in reddish-brown leather with an unidentified scroll design and two hook and eye clasps on the side. On the inside of the case, a rose-colored silk pad faces the daguerreotype . Daguerreotype hallmark: W.H.H. 40. According to Rinhart in The American daguerreotype (p. 445), this plate was probably American and produced between 1848 and 1853. Plate has been resilvered, probably by Whipple . Style of dress confirms circa date . Title created by curator . A quarter-plate daguerreotype by Whipple of the same women in a similar pose is in the collection of the Boston Athenaeum. See (photo) UTB-4 5 (no.4).
Local notes	Purchased with income from the Katharine Lane Weems Print Fund; March 2013; #2013.4.
Genre terms	Daguerreotypes--United States--1840 - 1850. Group portraits--United States--1840-1850.
Location/Call number	Prints and Photographs Dept. (Appointment required) (photo) UTB-2 5 (no. 6)
Source	8428.tif
Rights	Collection of the Boston Athenaeum. May not be reproduced or quoted without written permission. For more information, see http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/46