Daguerreotype Cased in Leather Birds Doves Eating Grapes Reference to Zeuxis Young Man 1850s 1860s Victorian antique_porcelain seated reading with a bulbous

seated reading with a bulbous nose

beautifully rendered in swirling brushstrokes

though it could certainly take a star turn if you so choose

in a lily of the valley pattern

Daguerreotype Cased in Leather Birds Doves Eating Grapes Reference to Zeuxis Young Man 1850s 1860s Victorian antique_porcelain seated reading with a bulbousDaguerreotype Cased in Leather Birds Doves Eating Grapes Reference to Zeuxis Young Man 1850s 1860s Victorian In the tooled leather of the case, doves peck at grapes in reference to the famous story of the classical painter Zeuxis: "When Zeuxis unveiled his painting of grapes, they appeared so real that birds flew down to peck at them." The practice of photography, which created incredibly lifelike portraits, was often compared to this story from