Moody, Much Tarnished Half Plate Daguerreotype Portrait of Woman with Ringlets tally machine some of them hand-colored in

some of them hand-colored in sepia

" I'm not entirely sure the nature of instruction

and I've never bought an oil can

I've searched but not found another like it

Moody, Much Tarnished Half Plate Daguerreotype Portrait of Woman with Ringlets tally machine some of them hand-colored inIt's not too often I come across a half plate daguerreotype 4 1 4" x 5 1 2" this one much tarnished, not surprisingly as it was clearly never cased. I like it for the color including deep browns and blues too, best seen in details and surface of gestural smudges and scratches, which together have the effect of making this young woman, already rather determined looking, feel as if willing herself into existence stubbornly resisting disappearing