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[John M. Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left, in military uniform] – Historic Photograph Print

[John M. Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left, in military uniform], [between 1844 and 1853] — historic photograph
[John M. Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left, in military uniform], [between 1844 and 1853]. 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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Scratched on the back of this half-plate daguerreotype is a note giving the sitter's brevet rank, 4th Artillery, and recording that he was lost on the steamer San Francisco. The sitter, John Macrae Washington, appears head and shoulders, turned three-quarters to the left in uniform, in a format Mathew Brady's studio produced widely in the 1840s and early 1850s. Gold toning warms the silver image and deepens its shadows. The plate later passed to the U.S. War College and reached the Library of Congress in 1920.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1853]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 329; Bvt. Col. Jno. M. Washington. 4th arty. lost on Steamer San Francisco. Corners trimmed. Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsWashington, John Macrae,--1797-1853. Military personnel--1840-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,277 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference237_John_M_Washington_heada_1844

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