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

Date1851-1853 (probably)

Photographer Ellwood Garrett (1813-?)

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

DimensionsOther (closed case exterior): 3 5/8 x 3 1/8 x 5/8in. (9.2 x 7.9 x 1.6cm)

Credit LineGift of Beatrix T. Rumford

Object number2009-167

DescriptionA sixth-plate daguerreotype of a young girl, shown full-length and standing beside a table covered in a pattern-woven cloth. The girl leans her proper left arm on the table, her right arm hanging downward and that hand clasping a bonnet. Some details are tinted with pink.The image is enclosed in a leather-covered, velvet-lined case having brass fittings.
InscribedHandwritten in black ink on the velvet case liner is "May 1853 [or 1858? or 1855?]".

In pencil on a label laid loose within the case is: "'Grannie'/Elizabeth M. Canby".
MarkingsStamped on the velvet case liner is: "E. GARRETT/66/MARKET ST./WILMINGTON DEL".

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.