D-109. WITH HER BONNET. The full figured lady selected a gallery located in the center of the daguerreian fever that extended for much of the length of central Broadway in the 1840s. She was shown the changing room where she removed her fancy hat and combed her hair. One of the partners in the firm suggested that she wear her wonderfully patterned shawl for the retaped sixth plate portrait. He also brought the bonnet into the operating room and placed it on a table. Her clothes were arranged to best reveal her lovely dress accented by that bold white collar. Very dramatic illumination lit her round face framed by those cascading coils of hair. Yellow and red paints were added to her costume and white was delicately brushed inside her headgear. Heavy patina and many mold spiders flow around the subject. One large orange mold mark is above her forehead. Black dots are present in places too. Her likeness was taken circa 1845 by the partnership of Anthony, Edwards and Chilton. They used a very distinctive gilded paper mat lined inside with a porous plaster material. "National Miniature Gallery 247 Broadway NY" is the embossed information around the best depiction of an eagle on a leather case. The lady's intact case has a purple silk pad and a plain reverse. The bottom wooden rail of the cover is missing. $285