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[William Penn Cresson, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with ornate chair and balustrade] – Historic Photograph Print

[William Penn Cresson, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with ornate chair and balustrade], [between 1847 and 1850] — historic photograph
[William Penn Cresson, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with ornate chair and balustrade], [between 1847 and 1850]. 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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Here a young man in a long coat stands full length beside an ornate chair and a carved balustrade, turned to his left as if caught mid-conversation. The case bears the label of J.E. Mayall, the American-born photographer who ran a studio at 433 West Strand in London, where many Americans traveling in Britain sat for portraits in the late 1840s. The sitter, William Penn Cresson (1814-1892), was a Philadelphian who later served as American consul in Jerusalem. The brass mat helps date the plate to between 1847 and 1850, a period when daguerreotypists favored elaborate studio props to suggest status and refinement.

Created / published[between 1847 and 1850]
Medium1 photograph : sixth-plate daguerreotype.
Genre433 West Strand". Label inside case: "Wm. Penn Cresson." Labels adhered to case: "174". Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-1998:151.21). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)"
NotesDate based on brass mat. Case: plain leather, embossed with gold leaf on back J.E. Mayall
SubjectsCresson, William Penn,--1814-1892.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,757 × 4,677 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference131_William_Penn_Cresson_fu_1847

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