H.D. Gilpin – Antique Print
![H.D. Gilpin, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2e/2e11b4924dc4-L.webp)
(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: H.D. Gilpin, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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H.D. Gilpin
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The caption gives only the initials and surname, H.D. Gilpin, and no date, so the sitter's identity is a lead rather than a confirmed fact. The initials most likely refer to Henry Dilworth Gilpin, a Philadelphia lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney General under Martin Van Buren in 1840 and 1841. Etched portraits like this one were a common way for nineteenth-century readers to see public men, since engravings circulated in books, periodicals and loose sheets well before photographs became widespread.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,134 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106163 |
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