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[Rev. Henry Anthon, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing robe, holding book] – Vintage Photo Print

[Rev. Henry Anthon, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing robe, holding book], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Rev. Henry Anthon, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing robe, holding book], [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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[Rev. Henry Anthon, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing robe, holding book]

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The Reverend Henry Anthon appears here in a half-length view, turned to face the camera in a robe and holding a book. The plate is a sixth-plate daguerreotype, gold toned to deepen its tones and strengthen the silvery surface, and it was probably made as a copy of an earlier image rather than from a live sitting. A New York newspaper notice from September 1843 is the source for identifying the sitter, and the picture comes from the Mathew Brady studio. Like all daguerreotypes, it is a single mirror-like object whose image shows best when tilted toward the light.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesTransfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. Probably a copy daguerreotype. Identification from The New York Atlas, Sept. 24, 1843.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,272 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference8_Rev_Henry_Anthon_halfle_1844

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