1840s Daguerreotype of an Elderly Lady

1840s Daguerreotype of an Elderly Lady

An 1840s 9th plate daguerreotype of a lady who must be in her eighties or nineties.
It's pretty amazing to think she was born in the 1750s or 1760s.
She is wearing a mourning brooch with hair plaited into it.

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