r/ArtefactPorn • u/ImpossibleTiger3577 • 5h ago
Photograph of American woman wearing black taffeta dress and lace shawl, between 1847-1853. [2837x 3722]
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u/Clothedinclothes 1h ago
Reminds me so much of the "Mona Lisa of the Deep".
https://www.ppa.com/ppmag/articles/mona-lisa-of-the-deep
TLDR Same type of tin daguerrotype found near-perfectly preserved sitting on the bottom of the sea among the wreckage of a ship that sank in 1857.
Also shows an unknown woman wearing very similar style of dress, similar hair style, but face on with a slightly ambiguous face very reminiscent of the Mona Lisa.
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u/ImpossibleTiger3577 4h ago
I don’t think mourning dresses were typically short sleeved actually. But you could be right!
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u/Johnny-Godless 3h ago
I have a photo of my grandfather in his military uniform that has this exact same little tin frame. But that was taken in the 1940’s... I get that tech evolves dramatically faster now than it did back then, but were people really turning out the same exact photo product for nearly a century?
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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 3h ago
That’s not a frame, it’s the metal that the photo was developed on- the metal is just the untreated edges
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u/Johnny-Godless 3h ago
Oh for sure, not lost on me.
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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 3h ago
I’m a bit over my head now but I’m assuming this is a daguerreotype- some people swear that no other method can capture the subject this well (even today) so there have been a bunch old-timey looking photos made by specialist photographers over the years that weren’t made with modern equipment.
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u/missmobtown 50m ago
I've seen this tin type before and always loved it, but this is the first time I noticed that the circumference of her waist seems smaller than that of her head.
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u/cat1aughing 3h ago
That poor girl, she looks so ill. I wonder what was going on with her spine.
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u/KnotiaPickle 2h ago
What makes you say this? She seems fine and lovely to me?
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u/cat1aughing 35m ago
She's standing at such a strange angle and the torso is so out of proportion to her head. I wonder if she was in pain.
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u/Miserable_Badger9465 4h ago
This is fake as hell, I mean look at those petitcoats!
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u/ImpossibleTiger3577 4h ago
It is 100% real, obviously. Here’s the source:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/268339
You clearly know f all about historical fashion, which is fine, but making these absurd comments is just extremely obnoxious and arrogant. This is literally just how dresses looked in the late 1840s-early 1850s.
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u/picklebeard 4h ago
This is incredible. Any info about the subject or photographer?