Half 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.
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 health. She had gone to the city to visit her sister and was seized with a sudden laryngitis ... doctors pronounced fatal. Essay was made by an incision in the throat to permit breathing. She became easy and died calmly, in full trust in the mercy of her Savior"
Daguerreotype is in very good antique condition in half of its original case.
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