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[William Cullen Bryant, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] – Historic Photograph Print

[William Cullen Bryant, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left], [between 1851 and 1860] — historic photograph
[William Cullen Bryant, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left], [between 1851 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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[William Cullen Bryant, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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William Cullen Bryant, the poet and longtime editor of the New York Evening Post, sits for this whole-plate daguerreotype, a mirror-bright silver image that has been gold-toned to deepen its shadows and warm its highlights. The plate was made in the Mathew Brady studio in New York, which by the early 1850s was among the most fashionable portrait operations in the country and drew many of the nation's writers, politicians and public figures. Bryant, who wrote "Thanatopsis" as a young man and remained a leading voice in American letters for decades, is shown in a head-and-shoulders pose turned slightly to the left. The plate's maker is recorded in its Brady-Handy collection holdings, which gives the image a clear link to one of the period's key photographic workshops.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : whole plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesHallmark: Rinhart 9. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Forms part of: Brady-Handy collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsBryant, William Cullen,--1794-1878.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,274 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference67_William_Cullen_Bryant_h_1851

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