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[George Bush, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right, with spectacles] – Antique Photo Print

[George Bush, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right, with spectacles], [between 1844 and 1859] — historic photograph
[George Bush, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right, with spectacles], [between 1844 and 1859]. 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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Here a bearded man in spectacles turns three-quarters to the right in a gold-toned half-plate daguerreotype, a process that produced a single unique image on silvered copper. The Library of Congress attributes the portrait to George Bush (1796-1859), a biblical scholar who taught Hebrew at New York University, and links it to Mathew Brady's studio. The identification rests on a likeness in an 1860 memoir of Bush, though an earlier note on the plate suggests Elisha H. Allen of Ohio, a possibility the catalogers consider less likely. The plate's date falls somewhere between 1844 and 1859.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1859]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from engraving by H.W. Smith on frontispiece of Memoirs and reminiscences of the late Prof. George Bush, edited by Woodbury M. Fernald, 1860. Image in engraving is similar, but not identical to the daguerreotype and is not labelled as a Brady image. In documentation that came with the daguerreotype it was identified as Elisha H. Allen of Ohio (cat. 5) but this identification seems less likely. Scratched on back of plate: 293. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsBush, George,--1796-1859.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,270 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference73_George_Bush_headandshou_1844

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