Unidentified photographer
1850
Matilda Heron as Medea

Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
California State Library
California History Section Picture Catalog, Identifier: VVV-2569, DAG-0218
 
Portrait of a young woman seated facing left, right arm resting on a table, left arm at her side. Image of Matilda in character of Medea.
 
Born Matilda Agnes Heron in 1830 in Ireland, emigrated to the United States in 1842.
 
LL/90871