Portrait of Elizabeth Morris Canby [later, Mrs. Charles Grubb Rumford](1848-1936)

Date1855-1857 (probably)

OriginAmerica, Delaware or Pennsylvania (probably)

MediumDaguerreotype in a leather-covered, velvet-lined case having brass fittings

DimensionsOverall (closed case exterior): 3 11/16 x 3 3/16 x 3/4in. (9.4 x 8.1 x 1.9cm)

Credit LineGift of Beatrix T. Rumford

Object number2009-166

DescriptionA sixth-plate daguerreotype of a young girl seated in a side chair beside a table and holding a bonnet in her lap. The bonnet ribbons are tinted pink. The image is enclosed in a leather-covered, velvet-lined case having brass fittings.
MarkingsA typed label adhered to the case's velvet lining reads: "L. M. Canby."
ProvenanceDescended in the family of the subject to CWF's donor. The exact line of descent is undocumented but may have been: from the subject to her son, Samuel Canby Rumford (1876-1950); to his son, Lewis Rumford II (d. 1997); to his daughter, Beatrix Tyson Rumford, who was CWF's donor.