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[Henry Inman with walking stick, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to the right, seated, with a book on a small table covered with a tablecloth showing lyre ornament] – Vintage Wall Art

[Henry Inman with walking stick, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to the right, seated, with a book on a small table covered with a tablecloth showing lyre ornament], [between 1844 and 1846] — historic photograph
[Henry Inman with walking stick, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to the right, seated, with a book on a small table covered with a tablecloth showing lyre ornament], [between 1844 and 1846]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Henry Inman with walking stick, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to the right, seated, with a book on a small table covered with a tablecloth showing lyre ornament] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Scratched into the face of this plate is the name "Inman," identifying the sitter as Henry Inman (1801–1846), a painter best known for his portraits. He sits half-length, turned three-quarters to the right, with a walking stick beside him and a book on a small table draped in a cloth decorated with a lyre pattern. The plate was made in Mathew Brady's studio between 1844 and 1846, when daguerreotypes were prized for their sharp detail, and gold toning gives the image its warm surface. Its likeness is close to another plate catalogued as no. 440, and the picture later passed through the U.S. War College before entering the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1846]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesLikeness resembles that of DAG no. 440. Scratched on face of plate: 12; Inman. Scratched on back of plate: 200. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 329. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsInman, Henry,--1801-1846.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,203 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference202_Henry_Inman_with_walkin_1844

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