F. W Baker & Co. Calcutta active 1850s-1870s

PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN, c.1860s. Sixth plate lightly hand-coloured daguerreotype portrait, of a woman, very possibly of Indian descent, wearing an ornately decorated floral dress, in plain gilt matt with Pinchbeck frame, housed in a maroon leather side-hinged casewith Baker's Daguerreotype embossed lid.