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[David Hume, 1711-1776, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] – Vintage Wall Art

[David Hume, 1711-1776, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] — antique engraving
[David Hume, 1711-1776, head-and-shoulders 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, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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David Hume, the Scottish philosopher and historian, is shown here in a head-and-shoulders view turned toward the right, a conventional pose for engraved portraits of the period. The caption card gives no date, so the plate's exact making is uncertain, but Hume's reputation was well established by the later eighteenth century, when engravings of this kind circulated widely among readers of his essays and of his multivolume History of England. Hume's skeptical arguments about causation and experience, set out in works such as A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, made him one of the central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, and portraits like this one helped fix his face for those readers.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan977 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124964

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