Lola Montez
Albert Sands Southworth|Josiah Johnson Hawes|Southworth and Hawes
ca. 1850 · Daguerreotype · Photographs
The Boston partnership of Southworth and Hawes produced the finest portrait daguerreotypes in America for a clientele that included leading political, intellectual, and artistic figures. The first photographic process, invented by Louis Daguerre (1787-1851), spread rapidly around the world after its presentation to the public in Paris in 1839. Exposed in a camera obscura and developed in mercury vapors, each highly polished silvered copper plate is a unique photograph that, viewed in proper light, exhibits extraordinary detail and three-dimensionality. Lola Montez (1818-1861), born in Ireland as Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, was a strikingly beautiful adventuress and "Spanish" dancer who achieved international notoriety as the mistress of King Louis I of Bavaria.
- Artist
- Albert Sands Southworth|Josiah Johnson Hawes|Southworth and Hawes
- Date
- ca. 1850
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937
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