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[Winfield Scott, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left, in military uniform] – Historic Photograph Print

[Winfield Scott, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left, in military uniform], [1849?] — historic photograph
[Winfield Scott, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left, in military uniform], [1849?]. 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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Winfield Scott, the army general, sits for this daguerreotype in three-quarter profile, turned to the left and dressed in full military uniform. The portrait is identified by comparison with a lithograph of Scott by François d'Avignon, published in Charles Edwards Lester's 1850 *Gallery of Illustrious Americans*, a series of portraits that Mathew Brady's firm helped bring to print. Scott had earned wide fame for leading U.S. forces to victory in the Mexican War, and images of him circulated widely in the late 1840s. The plate is gold toned, a treatment that warmed the silver image and helped preserve its delicate surface.

Created / published[1849?]
Medium1 photograph : whole plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 429. Hallmark: 40 (corner trimmed obscuring hallmark). Identification from a lithograph by Francois d'Avignon, plate 9 in Charles Edwards Lester's Gallery of illustrious Americans, 1850, published by M.B. Brady. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 344. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. Exhibit loan 4116-L.
SubjectsScott, Winfield,--1786-1866. Military officers--1840-1850.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,152 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference556_Winfield_Scott_headands_1849

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