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[George Washington Parke Custis, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, wearing white waistcoat] – Vintage Photo Print

[George Washington Parke Custis, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, wearing white waistcoat], [between 1844 and 1849] — historic photograph
[George Washington Parke Custis, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, wearing white waistcoat], [between 1844 and 1849]. 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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George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted grandson of George Washington and later the builder of Arlington House across the Potomac from the capital, sits in this half-length daguerreotype turned three-quarters to the left in a white waistcoat. The plate was produced in Mathew Brady's studio in the mid-1840s, when the daguerreotype was the dominant portrait process and sitters often came to studios like Brady's to be recorded in sharp, mirror-bright detail. Custis's own name on the sitter label was confirmed through a newspaper identification in The Atlas of 1849, and the plate's gold toning helps preserve the fine tonal range of the original image.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1849]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesIdentification from The Atlas, August 26, 1849, p. 1. Scratched on back of plate: 207; Custis, G.W.P. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsCustis, George Washington Parke,--1781-1857.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,216 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference135_George_Washington_Parke_1844

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