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[William Morris Meredith, half-length portrait, three-quarters to left] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[William Morris Meredith, half-length portrait, three-quarters to left], [between 1844 and 1849] — historic photograph
[William Morris Meredith, half-length portrait, three-quarters to left], [between 1844 and 1849]. 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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[William Morris Meredith, half-length portrait, three-quarters to left]

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This half-plate daguerreotype shows William Morris Meredith, a Philadelphia lawyer, turned three-quarters to the left and framed from the waist up. Brady's studio made the plate in the late 1840s. A.H. Ritchie later engraved the likeness for *The American Review* in August 1849, and that engraving is how the sitter was identified. Meredith became Secretary of the Treasury under Zachary Taylor in 1849 and stayed on into the Fillmore administration, so the portrait shows a public man at the start of a national post. Gold toning warms the silver tones, a finish common in portraits of the period.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1849]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesIdentification from an engraving by A.H. Ritchie, from a daguerreotype by Brady, published in The American Review, August 1849. Scratched on back of plate: 144. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsMeredith, William M. (William Morris),--1799-1873.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,203 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference547_William_Morris_Meredith_1844

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