Description
Terrific early image of a standing Canadian soldier in full uniform with rifle and bayonet. His cheeks are gently tinted pink. Housed in original paper sleeve. The back features a solemn period ink notation ‘(Magr?) H Urquart Died the 15 of June aged 22 years and 8 months and 2 days 1871’. The Military detachment has been identified as The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, re-designated 8 May 1900 as the 73rd Northumberland Battalion of Infantry. Formed in Chatham, NB in 1870 by absorbing the local militias.
A tintype, also known as a melanotype or ferrotype, was introduced in the mid-19th century. Essentially it’s a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal, colloquially called ‘tin’, coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion. The tintype, was essentially a variation on the ambrotype, which was a unique image made on glass.
2.5 x 4 inches
