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[Samuel Anderson Emery as Robin Roughhead in Fortunes frolics, full-length portrait, standing, holding flail, in front of backdrop with mountain and tree] – Historic Photograph Print

[Samuel Anderson Emery as Robin Roughhead in Fortunes frolics, full-length portrait, standing, holding flail, in front of backdrop with mountain and tree], [1851?] — historic photograph
[Samuel Anderson Emery as Robin Roughhead in Fortunes frolics, full-length portrait, standing, holding flail, in front of backdrop with mountain and tree], [1851?]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

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Here the actor Samuel Anderson Emery stands full length as Robin Roughhead in *Fortune's Frolics*, holding a flail before a painted backdrop of mountains and a tree. The pose and props show how stage performers were presented in portraits of the period. The engraving used to identify the sitter was made from a daguerreotype by Mayall for a London theatrical keepsake volume, so this plate may be a copy of that earlier likeness, and the record credits Mathew Brady's studio with its production. Because the image is now very faint, the costume and setting are best read from the title and the engraving.

Created / published[1851?]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesImage is very faint and hard to see, so the portrait is described in the title in some detail. Scratched on face of plate: 33; Emery. Hallmark: [asterisk double paschal lamb] 50. Identification from engraving by G. Greatbach of a daguerreotype by Mayall in Tallis's drawing-room table book of theatrical portraits, memoirs and anecdotes, opp. p. 46. Possibly a copy of a daguerreotype by Mayall. Title devised by Library staff. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsEmery, Samuel Anderson,--1817-1881.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,256 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference625_Samuel_Anderson_Emery_a_1851

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