Description:
Plate Size: 1/16 platePhoto type: AmbrotypePhotographer: Unknown Hand Coloration: Cheeks/giltSubject Matter: WomanCase Name: Floral MotifCase Type/Maker: UnknownDate of image: C. 1860Condition image: HazingCondition of case: Slightly loosened hinge

Material:
Plastic

Maker/Artist:
Unknown

Date:
Circa 1860

Provenance:
n/a

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

Weight (LBS)
.09

Condition:
Condition image: HazingCondition of case: Slightly loosened hinge

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 During the 1860s it was superseded by the tintype, a similar photograph on thin black-lacquered iron, hard to distinguish from an ambrotype if under glass.