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[Jefferson Davis, full-length portrait, seated] – Vintage Photo Print

[Jefferson Davis, full-length portrait, seated] — antique engraving
[Jefferson Davis, full-length portrait, seated]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: [Jefferson Davis, full-length portrait, seated], preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Jefferson Davis, full-length portrait, seated]

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Here Jefferson Davis is shown seated, head-on, in a full-length engraved portrait, a format that signaled official standing in the nineteenth century. Davis served as a U.S. senator and secretary of war before becoming president of the Confederate States of America in 1861, and engraved likenesses of him circulated widely in both the North and the South during that period. The record does not give a date for this print, so it is best read as a general example of how political leaders of his era were presented to the public. Its value to a researcher lies in the composition and pose, which reflect the conventions of formal portraiture more than any specific moment in his career.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,170 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118503

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