Deborah Delano Swift - Large 1840s Daguerreotype Photo of 1700s Painting ID'd african american the rest blank

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25" and in good or better antique condition

behind mat and cover glass in a 1/9 plate (about 3" tall

Circa 1900 photo

Deborah Delano Swift - Large 1840s Daguerreotype Photo of 1700s Painting ID'd african american the rest blankHalf plate daguerreotype, painting of Deborah Delano Swift (1762 1824), the wife of U. S. Navy surgeon, Dr. Foster Swift. She was raised a Quaker on Nantucket; at the end of her life she lived in Brooklyn and is buried in Green Wood Cemetery. She is not identified on this image but you can find her info including this very portrait on FindAGrave. From the Memoirs of Gen. JG Swift( Ellery, 1890): 1824: "On the 3rd June died my dear mother, in fine