A93.14.1

Untitled (Portrait of James King of William)
c.1855
4.75 in|4.75 in HIGH x 3.75 in|7.5 in WIDE x 0.75 in|0.4375 in DEEP
(12.06 cm|12.06 cm HIGH x 9.52 cm|19.05 cm WIDE x 1.90 cm|1.11 cm DEEP)
Prints and Photographs Fund
A93.14.1

Standard American manufacture wood and pressed leather daguerreotype case; red velvet plush pad, brass mat and preserver; case hinge split; original seals intact
inside on velvet: (embossed) R.H. Vance's Premium Daguerrean Galleries, San Francisco, Sacramento and Marysville
TOM Silver & Gold: A Preview, September 16, 1995 - January 26, 1996///Choices! Recent Acquisitions (TOM-Art Special Gallery) 11/94 - 8/95

Quarter plate daguerreotype with hand tinted cheeks in original case. King was a crusading newspaper editor whose assassination sparked the Vigilante Uprising of 1856.
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