According to the inscriptions, the portrait was "drawn & engraved by Jewett, Cinc[inatti, from a]"daguerreotype by White, N[ew] O[rleans]." This was probably Edward White, daguerreotypist,daguerrean case and plate manufacturer, dealer in daguerrean stock who was active in New Orleans from 1846-1848. Daguerreotypist Richard Carr, working in Veracruz in late 1846, attempted to order stock from White but was unsuccessful due to the U.S. blockade. In late 1847, White's employee Edward Jacobs received favorable press coverage in the New Orleans papers for his daguerrean portrait of Zachary Taylor, taken after his return from the war. See Peter E. Palmquist and Thomas R. Kailbourn, Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary (Stanford University Press, 2005), p. 627.
