$338
Four Daguerreotypes of Painted Portraits, an oversized quarter-plate depicting a bust-length painted portrait of a young woman, wearing sausage curls, identified in inscriptions on a label pinned to the velvet case pad: "Elizabeth Boardman Ingersoll Bowditch/Mrs. John James Dixwell"; two quarter-plate portraits of a young woman and a gentleman, and a sixth-plate portrait of a young woman, mounted in pressed-paper/leather cases, (imperfections). Note: Elizabeth Boardman Ingersoll Bowditch (1823-1888), descended from many generations of maritime families residing in Salem, Massachusetts. She married Boston merchant John James Dixwell (1806-1876) on May 6, 1846. They resided at "Sunnyside" a mansion on Moss Hill Road, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and together had four children.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-05-23