Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in a dark coat – Historic Photograph Print
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This historic photograph of Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in a dark coat brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in a dark coat
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Few sitters from the 1840s are as hard to pin down as this one: the record gives no name, only a man in a dark coat posed before the camera in 1844. Daguerreotypes of that year were made on silver-plated copper sheets, polished to a mirror and fumed over iodine, so each portrait is a single unique image rather than a print from a negative. Exposures often ran for several seconds or longer, which is why sitters were held still with head braces and fixed expressions. The dark coat was a common choice, since its tones read well against the bright silver ground and gave the plate a sober, formal look.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,281 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 361_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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