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[David Hume, 1711-1776, bust portrait, facing right] – Historic Photograph Print

[David Hume, 1711-1776, bust portrait, facing right] — antique engraving
[David Hume, 1711-1776, bust portrait, facing right]. Antique engraving 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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This rare antique engraving captures [David Hume, 1711-1776, bust portrait, facing right] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[David Hume, 1711-1776, bust portrait, facing right]

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David Hume, the Scottish philosopher and historian, appears here in a bust-length profile facing right, rendered as an engraving whose maker and date the caption card does not record. Hume (1711-1776) was one of the central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, known for his skeptical inquiries into causation, human understanding and religion, and for his multivolume History of England. Engraved likenesses like this one were widely circulated in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when printed portraits of writers and thinkers helped establish their public reputations. The profile format was a common convention of the period, lending the sitter a formal, dignified air.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan978 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127552

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