Portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat, preserved in this historic photograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat
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The bearded man in this 1844 daguerreotype wears a dark coat, and the plate's silvery surface brings out fine detail in his beard and collar. Made on a polished silver-coated copper sheet, the image reads as a mirror-like positive that shifts from dark to light as you tilt it. Daguerreotypes had been publicly introduced in 1839, and by the mid-1840s portrait studios were spreading through American and European cities, making a likeness more accessible than ever before. Exposures still took many seconds, so the sitter had to hold his pose, which gives the portrait its steady, serious air.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,207 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 388_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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