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William Rotch, Jr.

William Rotch, Jr. Daguerreotype, hand-colored,
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Daguerreotype, hand-colored, by unidentified photographer, [circa 1850]

Visible oval image 9 cm x 7 cm (quarter-plate); in case 12 cm x 9.5 cm

Removed from the Rotch family papers
From the Daguerreotype collection
Photo. 1.106


This daguerreotype depicts a portrait painting, originally painted in 1828 by the artist Rembrandt Peale, of the Quaker merchant William Rotch, Jr. (1759-1850) of New Bedford, Mass.