Deborah Delano Swift - Large 1840s Daguerreotype Photo of 1700s Painting ID'd arizona 25") of a boy

25") of a boy

but overall this image is in very good antique condition

in hand this tintype looks great

who is perched on a foot stool

Deborah Delano Swift - Large 1840s Daguerreotype Photo of 1700s Painting ID'd arizona 25") of a boyHalf 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. From the Memoirs of Gen. JG Swift( Ellery, 1890): 1824: "On the 3rd June died my dear mother, in fine