# Frances Folsom Cleveland, by Charles Milton Bell

- By: Charles Milton Bell / Adam Cuerden
- Date: 1886
- Classification: Print
- Credit line: National Portrait Gallery (USA), gift of Francis A. DiMauro. NPG.2007.292
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frances_Folsom_Cleveland,_by_Charles_Milton_Bell.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/2/23/Frances_Folsom_Cleveland%2C_by_Charles_Milton_Bell.jpg/1920px-Frances_Folsom_Cleveland%2C_by_Charles_Milton_Bell.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Photograph of First Lady of the United States Frances Folsom Cleveland. Albumen silver print.

Dimensions:

Image 12 x 9 cm (4 3/4 x 3 9/16") Sheet 13.4 x 9.8 cm (5 1/4 x 3 7/8") Mount 16.2 x 10.7 cm (6 3/8 x 4 3/16") Restoration notes Some signs of minor retouching back in the 19th century. I've compared it to other photos of her from the time, and think it's fairly minor, at least after using them to guide restoration. Probably mostly to help seperate her from the background. The dark part of the dress was very scratched up in places; I did my best to conserve detail, but some minor detail may have been lost. The original photo had an arched top to the photographic plate; I've straightened this out as, for some reason, the National Portrait Gallery rarely includes the edges of the cabinet card, so there wasn't much point trying to keep the mount. My experience is that sufficiently widely-reproduced photographs of this era tend to exist in various crops and shapes - for example, File:Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Julia Margaret Cameron - Original.jpg vs. File:Alfred, Lord Tennyson MET DP295251.jpg, so this doesn't really affect artistic intent of the photographer, merely a whim of…