03·06·2026 / Félinotype

Homme non identifié avec chat, portrait en buste, visage de face, assis.
Daguerréotype, années 1840-1850.
Division des estampes et photographies de la Bibliothèque du Congrès, Washington.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3d01979

The man, the cat, and the photographer are all unidentified for this daguerreotype, a common occurrence with cased photographs such as this. All we know is that in what was likely his first ever photographic portrait, this man wanted to include his feline friend!

Picture This, Kristi Finefield: “Kittintypes: Nineteenth-Century Cats in the Daniel Carter Beard Collection.”