Daguerreotype Je. Mayall Child With Basket Of Flowers Union Case Photograph C.1850

Little girl holding a basket of flowers posing near her finely colored hat. Sixth plate in its Union Case circa 1850. JE MAYALL (1813-1901) opened his first daguerreotype studio in Philadelphia in the early 1840s. He soon moved to Great Britain, where he helped found the American Daguerreotype Association in London. In 1851, he established his own studio in the British capital, photographing Queen Victoria and members of the royal family throughout the 1860s. He is also known for his portraits of Karl Marx and Dickens. The daguerreotype is the first photographic process developed by Nicéphore Niépce and then Louis Daguerre and offered to the world (except the United Kingdom) by France in 1839. It is both a negative and a positive, hence its characteristic mirror effect. They were also poetically called in the 19th century "mirrors that remember". Union Case format 8.5x10 cm Image format 6x7.5 cm Union case This is a case that protects the daguerreotype from any form of oxidation. It can be made of leather in Europe or thermoplastic material, the result of pressing a mixture of wood fibers and shellac in a steel mold, many of which were produced in the USA, hence their generic name "Union Case". link on the site https://www.lavalisearlesienne.com/product-page/daguerr%C3%A9otype-je-mayall-enfant-%C3%A0-la-corbeille-de-fleurs-union-case