Unidentified photographer / artist
1853, August
Silesian Merino

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The Journal of Agriculture (Boston), Volume 3, No.2, August, 1853, p.44. A letter to the Editor from George Campbell (West Westminster, Vt., July 5th, 1852).
 
Mr. Editor, I send you the cut representing a group of Silesian Merino Ewes, representing them precisely as they were when taken by a daguereotype standing in a yard. Their position does not fully develop all their good points; still enough is exhibited to show the character of the sheep.
 
Note from the editor (p.45):
 
We have heretofore favorably noticed the flocks of Mr. Campbell, and commended him as a fair dealer to all who contemplate a purchase of sheep. At our suggestion he caused a daguerreotype drawing to be made of his sheep, from which the engraving at the head of this article and one of French Merinos in a former No., was executed by F. E. Fox of No. 6 School street, Boston. In our estimation they are the best and most sheepish looking pictures that have appeared in any periodical in America; and so thinking we leave our friend, who desire faithful and life-like likenesses of their stock to profit by this hint.
 
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