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[Thomas Sully, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Thomas Sully, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1851 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Thomas Sully, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left], [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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[Thomas Sully, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left]

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Rather than a sitter photographed from life, this half-plate daguerreotype reproduces an oil portrait by Thomas Sully, the Philadelphia painter known for his polished likenesses of prominent Americans and British figures. The plate was made in Mathew Brady's studio between 1851 and 1860, a period when photographers often copied existing paintings to create portable, durable versions of them. Gold toning gives the silvery surface its warm depth, and the plate's 1920 transfer to the U.S. War College shows how early photographs were preserved as historical records.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 169 [canceled]; 436. Copy of an oil painting. Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,300 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference628_Thomas_Sully_headandsho_1851

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