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[Ralph Hoyt, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, holding a book] – Historic Photograph Print

[Ralph Hoyt, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, holding a book], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Ralph Hoyt, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, holding a 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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Ralph Hoyt sits three-quarters turned to the right, a book in hand, in this half-plate daguerreotype made in Mathew Brady's studio between 1844 and 1860. The image was identified from an 1875 engraved portrait in Duyckinck's *Cyclopaedia of American Literature*, which suggests Hoyt was known in literary circles and that the book is more than a prop. Gold toning, applied after exposure, gives the silvered plate its warm, deeper tones and protects its delicate surface. Brady's studio was among the most prominent portrait operations of the period, so the picture also shows the polished, formal style of mid-century American portraiture.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from print published in Duyckinck's Cyclop. of Amer. Literature (1875), v. 2, page 397. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsHoyt, Ralph,--1806-1878.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference294_Ralph_Hoyt_halflength_p_1844

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