Profile portrait of a man in dark suit, daguerreotype – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Profile portrait of a man in dark suit, daguerreotype, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Profile portrait of a man in dark suit, daguerreotype
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Daguerreotypes from 1844 were made on silvered copper plates, so this profile portrait of a man in a dark suit carries the mirror-like sheen and sharp detail that set the process apart from paper prints. Louis Daguerre's method had been announced publicly only five years earlier, in 1839, and by the mid-1840s portrait studios in Paris, London and New York were turning out these small, one-of-a-kind images for a growing middle-class clientele. A profile pose was less common than the frontal view sitters usually chose, and it reflects the fashion for classical silhouettes and the heavy, formal dress of the period. Because each plate is a unique positive, the surface is fragile and reflective, and the image can shift in tone depending on the angle of light.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,313 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 359_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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