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[John M. Bradhurst, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly left, seated with arm on table with tablecloth] – Antique Photo Print

[John M. Bradhurst, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly left, seated with arm on table with tablecloth], [between 1851 and 1860] — historic photograph
[John M. Bradhurst, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly left, seated with arm on table with tablecloth], [between 1851 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Seated at a table draped with a cloth, one arm resting on it, John Maunsell Bradhurst looks slightly to the left in this quarter plate daguerreotype, its cheeks and lips softened by hand coloring. Bradhurst lived only from 1837 to 1867, so the portrait dates from a brief period when daguerreotypes were the leading form of photographic portraiture in American cities. The case is embossed with the address of the Anson studio at 589 Broadway in New York, a reminder that such pictures were made by commercial galleries serving urban families. A later New York restorer also handled the plate, and the family gave it to the Library of Congress in 1997 with its original case.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesCase: variant of Rinhart 63. Accompanying note: John M. Bradhurst, Jr. [sic], son of Samuel. Embossed on inside of case: Anson 589 Broadway N.Y. Stamped on brass mat: Anson 589 Broadway. On back of plate: Walter Scott Shinn, daguerreotypes restored, old photographs copied, 554 Fifth Avenue New York Bryant 9-8930. Gift; Family of William B. Osgood Field; 1997; (DLC/PP-1999:155). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBradhurst, John M. (John Maunsell),--1837-1867.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,270 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference57_John_M_Bradhurst_threeq_1851

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