Pauline - Daguerréotype

Rare daguerreotype of a young girl, named Pauline after an indication on the verso.
The date 1847 appears on newspaper clippings glued to the verso, serving as mounting paper.
The black-painted glass with gold leaf fillets has no deep cardboard bevel, as was the case in pre-1850 examples of this process - the glory days of daguerreotypes soon to be replaced by reproducible and less costly photographic techniques.
An aesthetic portrait produced in the early days of photography, an interesting pendant to Lewis Carroll's portrait of Annie Rogers (catalog number X) - illustrating the constant evolution in the aesthetic of early girlhood portraits in 19th-century photography.