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LL/61975
Unidentified photographer (American)
1850 (ca)
An Elephant, Horse, Camel, and a Man

Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
3-1/4 x 4-1/4 ins (8.3 x 10.8 cm)
 
Heritage Auctions
2015 November 13 Photographs Signature Auction - Dallas #5220
 
The collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has the only other American daguerreotype of an elephant known. That image is a quarter plate by Thomas Easterly.
 
LL/61975


 

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