Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man and woman – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man and woman, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man and woman
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A pair of sitters, a man and a woman, seated close together in a daguerreotype from 1855, and the record does not tell us who they were. What it does offer is the medium itself: a daguerreotype is a one-of-a-kind image fixed on a silvered copper plate, so this portrait exists as a single object rather than a print that could be run off again. By the mid-1850s the process had been public for about sixteen years and was a common way for families to sit for likenesses, usually in studios with strong window light and long exposures that required the subjects to hold still. Look closely at the surface, since the image shifts between positive and negative depending on the angle of light, a quality that is part of how these plates were meant to be seen.
| Created / published | 1855 |
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| Original scan | 4,014 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 640_Unidentified_man_and_wo_1855 |
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