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[Peter Paul Duggan, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, head in profile] – Vintage Wall Art

[Peter Paul Duggan, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, head in profile], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Peter Paul Duggan, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, head in profile], [between 1844 and 1860]. 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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A window into the past: [Peter Paul Duggan, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, head in profile], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Peter Paul Duggan, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, head in profile]

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The most distinctive feature of this half-length portrait is its profile pose: the sitter, Peter Paul Duggan, turns three-quarters to the right, a more deliberate angle than the frontal views common in the period. The plate was made in Mathew Brady's studio sometime between 1844 and 1860, and gold toning gives the silvered surface warmer tones and added durability. A note scratched on the back identifies the sitter, and the plate later passed through the U.S. War College in 1920 before entering the Library of Congress collection. Duggan died in 1861, so the portrait captures him in the years just before the Civil War began.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 92; Paul Duggan. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsDuggan, Peter Paul,--d. 1861.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,177 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference289_Peter_Paul_Duggan_halfl_1844

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