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[Miss Gunning, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] – Historic Photograph Print

[Miss Gunning, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1850 and 1900] — historic print
[Miss Gunning, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1850 and 1900]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: [Miss Gunning, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Miss Gunning, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

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This head-and-shoulders portrait shows a woman turned to the left, identified in the record only as Miss Gunning. The name points to the Gunning sisters, Irish-born beauties who became celebrities in mid-18th-century London, where crowds reportedly gathered to see them in public. This print is a photomechanical reproduction, made between 1850 and 1900, when new photographic printing methods let painted portraits circulate cheaply. The record credits the source image to an artist named Douloux, though that attribution is uncertain.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1900]
Medium1 photomechanical print.
GenrePortraits 1800-1900.Art reproductions 1850-1900.Photomechanical prints 1850-1900.
NotesReproduction of painting(?) by Douloux.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,288 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177734

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