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[Daniel Webster, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right] – Historic Photograph Print

[Daniel Webster, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right], [between 1845 and 1849] — historic photograph
[Daniel Webster, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right], [between 1845 and 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Daniel Webster, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Daniel Webster sits in this sixth-plate daguerreotype, turned slightly to the right in a head-and-shoulders pose. The plate dates from between 1845 and 1849, when Webster was back in the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts after earlier serving as secretary of state and earning fame as a powerful orator. The image was produced in Mathew Brady's studio, one of the most prominent portrait operations of its day, and daguerreotypes like this were prized for their fine detail and mirror-like surface. The plate later reached the Library of Congress by transfer from the U.S. War College in 1920.

Created / published[between 1845 and 1849]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesFacing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 354. Scratched on back of plate: 462. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsWebster, Daniel,--1782-1852.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,241 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference170_Daniel_Webster_headands_1845

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