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[Andrew Jackson, head-and-shoulders portrait, nearly in profile to left, leaning against pillow of which ticking appears in lower left corner] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Andrew Jackson, head-and-shoulders portrait, nearly in profile to left, leaning against pillow of which ticking appears in lower left corner], [between 1844 and 1845] — historic photograph
[Andrew Jackson, head-and-shoulders portrait, nearly in profile to left, leaning against pillow of which ticking appears in lower left corner], [between 1844 and 1845]. 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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Shown nearly in profile and leaning against a pillow, Andrew Jackson appears here in a pose that suggests the declining health he faced in his last years. Jackson had retired to his Hermitage plantation near Nashville after two terms as the seventh president, and by 1844 or 1845 he was a frail elder statesman. This plate is a copy, possibly made from an original by Edward Anthony, and the pencil and scratched inscriptions on it name the sitter. The warm brown cast comes from gold toning, a finishing step widely used on daguerreotypes of the period.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1845]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesCopy daguerreotype, original possibly by Edward Anthony. Scratched on face of plate: 86. Written in pencil on face of plate: Andrew Jackson. Scratched on back of plate: 110; Gen. Andrew Jackson. Corners trimmed. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 330. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsJackson, Andrew,--1767-1845.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,207 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference146_Andrew_Jackson_headands_1844

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