or 1847 – Vintage Print
(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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This quarter plate daguerreotype shows Mary Todd Lincoln seated and facing the camera, a portrait from the first years of her marriage. It is usually dated to about 1846, the year Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress, and the photographer is possibly Nicholas H. Shepherd, though that attribution is uncertain. Daguerreotypes were made as direct positives on silver-coated copper, so the image is sharpest when tilted in the light and appears reversed left to right. The plate came to the Library of Congress as a 1937 gift from Mary Lincoln Isham, a granddaughter of the Lincolns.
| Created / published | c. 1846 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photograph, quarter plate daguerreotype |
| Notes | Mary Todd Lincoln, Three-Quarter Length Portrait Of A Woman, Seated, Facing Front. Photographer (possibly) Nicholas H. Shepherd. Gift to the Library Of Congress by Mary Lincoln Isham, 1937 |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 3,198 × 4,098 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | L-F-12 |
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