Elegant and exceedingly rare stereoscopic daguerreotype portrait by renowned French-English photographer Antoine Claudet, featuring three finely dressed women identified as Anne Ashton, Margaret Jonson, and Sophia Ashton. Each woman is posed with grace and poise around a round table adorned with flowers, set against a highly detailed studio backdrop with ornate drapes and a painted landscape visible through a window. The image is richly hand-tinted, with careful attention to the textures and color variations in their silk gowns, sashes, and jewelry.

Claudet’s embossed paper label on the reverse includes typed and handwritten identifications of the sitters, as well as Claudet’s famous imprint from 107 Regent Street, London, one of the most prestigious photographic addresses in Victorian England. Claudet, a pioneer of both stereo imaging and artistic hand-coloring in daguerreotype portraiture, held a Royal Warrant and was considered among the finest photographic portraitists of his time.

Stereoscopic daguerreotypes by Claudet are rare enough, but those with full identifications and exquisite hand-tinting are nearly unheard of. This work represents the height of photographic artistry and refinement in the 1850s, offering not only a technically exceptional example of Claudet’s craftsmanship but also a rare glimpse into the fashionable elite of mid-Victorian Britain. A museum-quality artifact of photographic and social history.