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[Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, full-length portrait, standing slightly to the left, one hand resting on the back of a chair; studio background showing prominently] – Vintage Wall Art

[Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, full-length portrait, standing slightly to the left, one hand resting on the back of a chair; studio background showing prominently], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, full-length portrait, standing slightly to the left, one hand resting on the back of a chair; studio background showing prominently], [between 1844 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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Unlike the head-and-shoulders likenesses common at the time, this half-plate shows Alexander H. H. Stuart full-length, standing slightly to one side with one hand resting on the back of a chair, the studio backdrop filling the space behind him. Stuart, a Virginia Whig, served as Secretary of the Interior under Millard Fillmore from 1850 to 1853. An engraving of him by A. H. Ritchie in the April 1852 issue of the American Whig Review helps confirm the sitter's identity. The plate was made in Mathew Brady's studio, where the daguerreotype was a popular way to record public men before the Civil War, and the gold toning gives the surface its warm brown cast.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on face of plate: 185; Stuart. Scratched on back of plate: 279. Slightly trimmed. Identification from engraving by A.H. Ritchie in American Whig Review, April 1852, p. 285. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsStuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes),--1807-1891.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,294 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference142_Alexander_Hugh_Holmes_S_1844

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