Portrait of a bearded man in dark coat, daguerreotype – Antique Photo Print
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Step back in time with Portrait of a bearded man in dark coat, daguerreotype, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Portrait of a bearded man in dark coat, daguerreotype
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A daguerreotype from 1844 offers a close look at one unnamed sitter: a bearded man in a dark coat, rendered in the mirror-like silver image that defined the earliest commercial photography. Daguerreotypes were made on copper plates coated with silver and iodine, then developed over mercury vapor, so each one is a single, unreproducible object that shows a sharp, reversed-tone portrait when tilted in the light. Portraits like this one were expensive, sitting times were long, and the sitter's stillness and formal dress reflect the conventions of the period. Because the record does not identify the man, his attire and beard are among the few clues to his place in the mid-1840s.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,288 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 449_Unidentified_man_headan_1844 |
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