Description:
1.Plate Size: 1/9 platePhoto type: AmbrotypePhotographer: Unknown Hand Coloration: Cheeks/giltSubject Matter: WomanCase Name: The Rosette MotifCase Type/Maker: S. Peck & Co., Plastic, C. 1854Date of image: C. 1857Condition image: No issuesCondition of case: Slight loss at edges2.Plate Size: 1/9 platePhoto type: AmbrotypePhotographer: Unknown Hand Coloration: Cheeks/giltSubject Matter: ManCase Name: RosetteCase Type/Maker: Littlefield, Parsons & Co., Plastic, c. 1857. Original label underneath.Date of image: C. 1860Condition image: No issuesCondition of case: Losses at edges3.Plate Size: 1/9 platePhoto type: AmbrotypePhotographer: Unknown Hand Coloration: noneSubject Matter: WomanCase Name: The Church WindowCase Type/Maker: A. P. Critchlow & Co., Plastic, C. 1857Date of image: C. 1860Condition image: Hazing at edges4.Plate Size: 1/9 platePhoto type: AmbrotypePhotographer: Unknown Hand Coloration: noneSubject Matter: WomanCase Name: Rosette Motif with Diapered CenterCase Type/Maker: A. P. Critchlow & Co., Plastic, C. 1856. Original label underneath.Date of image: C. 1859Condition image: Hazing onto imageCondition of case: Losses at cornerCondition of case: Losses at edges5.Plate Size: 1/9 platePhoto type: AmbrotypePhotographer: Unknown Hand Coloration: noneSubject Matter: ManCase Name: Moorish PatternCase Type/Maker: A. P. Critchlow & Co., Plastic, C. 1856. Original label underneath.Date of image: C 1859Condition image: Slight hazing6.Plate Size: 1/9 platePhoto type: AmbrotypePhotographer: Unknown Hand Coloration: noneSubject Matter: Woman seatedCase Name: Floral MotifCase Type/Maker: S. Peck & Co., Plastic, C. 1854Date of image: C. 1857Condition image: No issuesCondition of case: No issuesCondition of case: No issues

Material:
Pastic

Maker/Artist:
Various

Date:
Circa 1857

Provenance:
n/a

Size of Artwork:
H. 3 x W. 10 x D. 2 in

Weight (LBS)
1.3

Condition:
1.Condition image: No issuesCondition of case: Slight loss at edges2.Condition image: No issuesCondition of case: Losses at edges3.Condition image: Hazing at edgesCondition of case: Losses at edges4.Condition image: Hazing onto imageCondition of case: Losses at cornerCondition of case: Losses at edges5.Condition image: Slight hazingCondition of case: No issues6.Condition image: No issuesCondition of case: No issuesCondition of case: No issues

History:
The ambrotype (from Ancient Greek: — “immortal”, and — “impression”) or amphitype, also known as a collodion positive in the UK, is a positive photograph on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process. Like a print on paper, it is viewed by reflected light. Like the daguerreotype, which it replaced, and like the prints produced by a Polaroid camera, each is a unique original that could only be duplicated by using a camera to copy it.The ambrotype was introduced in the 1850s. During the 1860s it was superseded by the tintype, a similar photograph on thin black-lacquered iron, hard to distinguish from an ambrotype if under glass.