Raynors HCA 2017-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/1/2017
Oval daguerreotype, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches, in an attractive contemporary stamped gutta-percha frame, gilt, lined in red velvet. A few light spots. Near fine. A handsome daguerreotype of Yale professor James Hadley (1821-72). Hadley was born in Fairfield, N.Y. and graduated from Yale in 1842. He was a philologist and professor of Greek there from 1851 to 1872. His son, Arthur T. Hadley, became president of Yale University. Hadley is depicted from the chest up, dressed in a suit and looking to the viewer's right.
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