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A LIKENESS OF DR. C. F. WINSLOW
FROM JUNE, 1843
Offered is a quality early daguerreotype of an identified individual, with a date attached. The acorn motif on the mat is an indicator that this early daguerreotype was by John Plumbe.
BIOGRAPHY. Dr. Charles Frederick Winslow, scientist was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1911 and graduated with his medical degree from Harvard University in 1834. He practiced medicine in Hawaii and studied various life forms, collecting samples. He also practiced in Nantucket before leaving for Peru as the U.S. Consul in 1862. Eventually he ended up in California, once again as a medical practitioner, as well as collecting samples some of which he donated to the Boston Society of Natural History. He died in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1877 and explicitly asked to be cremated (his request can be seen on-line). His heart was buried in Nantucket, and his cremated remains were buried in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
His books include:
Cosmography, or the Philosophical View of the Universe (1853)
Preparation of the Earth for Intellectual Races (a transcription of a lecture to the California Assembly) (1854)
The Cooling Globe (1865)
Forces of Nature: Attraction and Repulsion (1869)
Sources: Winslow Family Papers, Nantucket Historical Association.
Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail, by Joan Druett.
A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography by Howard Atwood Kelly
Wikipedia
DAGUERREOTYPE
$3,500.00 USD
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WINSLOW DAGUERREOTYPE
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HOUSING
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Very early primitive leather case with original spine. |
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APPEARANCE
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Sharp portrait.
Great lighting, bright image. |
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CONDITION
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Very good condition for the time period.
As usual with early daguerreotypes, the buffing is less refined.
Looks like it has been lightly cleaned with vestiges of tarnish on perimeter.
Re-sealed with new glass. |
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SIZE
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Sixth plate. |
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