Southworth & Hawes Full Plate Daguerreotype of Chief Justice Andrew Salter Woods 1840-1855

In a Victorian gutta percha picture frame. The daguerreotype is is identified as the work of Southworth and Hawes by its former owner, the esteemed collector Jack Naylor, who acquired the piece from Harry I. Gross, the well known collector of Southworth & Hawes. The hallmarks are typical of plates employed by Southworth & Hawes. In style, composition and subject the daguerreotype is closely related to the whole plate portrait of Lemuel Shaw, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society (see Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes, no. 300, p. 302).