Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair carved wood feet which turns into a seascape

which turns into a seascape

and the rather manic decorative flourishes that animate every square inch of the piece

but adding their own elements and adaptations

I have searched but not found anything about John

with inverse numbers in the opposite far corners

Early Ninth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting, Man in Caned Chair carved wood feet which turns into a seascapeI think daguerreotypes of paintings are such special things, documents of a very particular moment in time, when silhouettes and painted portraits were just giving way to photographic ones; as such, to me, they represent a wonderful convergence of both technologies and sensibilities, and feel supremely tender and very very human. This one, a ninth plate, c. 1840s 50s I would think, captures a folk art painting of on older man in profile seated in a