Unidentified man in dark coat, daguerreotype portrait – Vintage Wall Art
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Unidentified man in dark coat, daguerreotype portrait
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A daguerreotype from 1848 showing a man in a dark coat, with no name attached to the sitter, so the picture rests entirely on its look and its date. The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process, introduced in France in 1839, and by the late 1840s studios in American cities were making portraits like this one in large numbers. Each plate is a single, reversed image on silvered copper, so it has a mirror-like surface that can flip between a positive picture and a reflection of the viewer depending on the angle. Portraits of this period were often expensive, sitting-long affairs, which makes an unnamed sitter common among surviving plates.
| Created / published | 1848 |
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| Original scan | 3,288 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 374_Unidentified_man_about_1848 |
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