Beschreibung:

Lot of 11 cased images of members of the Wilson and Peck families, connected by marriage through Amanda Peck Wilson (1823-1893), the daughter of Massachusetts-based hatter John Morris Peck. In 1837, Peck retired and moved his family to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Wilson met and married her husband, Edward J. Wilson (1823-1872), the subject of a quarter plate daguerreotype shown wearing a dark suit and tie with a white shirt. Three sixth plate daguerreotypes show Amanda Wilson holding her infant children: in two, she appears with her son Frank (1858-1860) and wears a patterned dress and drop-style earrings, and she is pictured in a third with her arm around her young daughter May Wilson Ledman (1849-?), taken at a separate sitting. A quarter plate daguerreotype presents a second portrait of Ledman as a young girl, wearing a plaid dress and pantaloons, and is housed in the same case as an ambrotype of her future husband, John Lewis Ledman (1843-1888). Three additional images show some of May and Frank's other siblings, including a half plate ambrotype of May with brothers Benjamin (1851-1933) and Charles (1850-1927); a quarter plate daguerreotype of Charles; and a ninth plate daguerreotype of sister Laura A. Wilson (1852-1856). Of Amanda and Edward's nine children, four did not reach adulthood. Two additional images show some of Amanda's twelve siblings, including a sixth plate daguerreotype that is credited on brass mat to renowned photographer J.P. Ball, Cincinnati, OH. Portrait presents older sister Mary Silsbee Peck (1814-1887) wearing a plaid neckerchief and gold jewelry. Mary also appears in a half plate daguerreotype group portrait with brother Alexander Gregory Peck (1824-1894), sister-in-law Sarah McKee Peck (1825-1871), and sisters Sarah Maria Peck (1820-1903) and Adaline Peck Wilson (1827-1884), married to the brother of Amanda's husband. Condition: Many with tarnish to brass mats, and several with fine spotting throughout plates. Some cases fully separated at spines.