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Black-and-white photograph of a framed miniature portrait of a woman – Historic Photo Reproduction

Black-and-white photograph of a framed miniature portrait of a woman, 1840 — historic photograph
Black-and-white photograph of a framed miniature portrait of a woman, 1840. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Black-and-white photograph of a framed miniature portrait of a woman, preserved in this historic photograph. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Black-and-white photograph of a framed miniature portrait of a woman

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A framed miniature portrait of a woman, dated 1840, is the subject here, and the record gives no name for the sitter or the maker. The image itself is a black-and-white photograph of an earlier object, so what we see is a copy of a small painted or photographed likeness rather than the original. Around 1840 was the very beginning of photography: daguerreotypes had just been announced in 1839 and were quickly adopted for portraits, often housed in small cases much like the frame shown here. Early sitters typically had to hold still for long exposures, and the result was a unique, mirror-like image on silvered copper, so such early portraits are prized today as some of the first attempts to capture a face on a permanent surface.

Created / published1840
Original scan3,263 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference165_Copy_of_a_painting_of_a_1840

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