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[Phoebe Cary, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, three-quarters to the right] – Vintage Wall Art

[Phoebe Cary, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, three-quarters to the right], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Phoebe Cary, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, three-quarters to the right], [between 1844 and 1860]. 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 into the plate beside a number is the name "Miss Cary," which points to Phoebe Cary (1824-1871), the Ohio-born poet who wrote and published alongside her sister Alice. The sisters moved to New York in the early 1850s and joined its literary circles. This head-and-shoulders portrait, turned three-quarters to the right, follows the conventions of mid-century studio work from Mathew Brady's workshop. The identification rests on an engraving in the Library of Congress's biographical file, so it is a documented attribution rather than a confirmed one.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesAlternative identification: Carpenter (cat. 5). Identification from engraving in LC P&P Biographical File. Scratched on face of plate: 238; Miss Cary. Scratched on back of plate: 287. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsCary, Phoebe,--1824-1871.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,283 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference81_Phoebe_Cary_headandshou_1844

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