D05-111. IN A VILLAGE. The elderly matron sat stiffly with crossed arms in front of her waist while an itinerant daguerreotypist (notice the folds and wrinkles in the cotton backdrop) directed sunlight from behind and above the camera onto his customer. He was quite proficient in eliminating a bright glare in the lenses of the woman's wire rimmed glasses. Oh, if only I could sit with her for an hour, to listen intently to the stories she could tell, of her youth and then later, maturing into a woman. While her retaped sixth plate is average in every regard, the maker managed to reproduce her in this likeness as a true representation of herself. How I truly love these country folks in rural America. They were the backbone of our great industrious country at the time she was taken, circa 1849. He painted her face and lips with red pigment to increase the probability that she would actually purchase his work. A couple mat marks and a few specks are meaningless. A worn yet still intact black leather case with lovebirds as the theme holds her today. $135