[Commodore Matthew C. Perry, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing slightly left with left hand resting on sword] – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Commodore Matthew C. Perry, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing slightly left with left hand resting on sword], [between 1854 and 1858] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4c/4c58e6fb23e6-L.webp)
(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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[Commodore Matthew C. Perry, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing slightly left with left hand resting on sword]
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Perry stands three-quarter length with his left hand resting on his sword, a pose that presents him as a naval officer rather than a simple portrait sitter. The albumen carte de visite was made in the studio of Mathew Brady, and a pencilled note on the mount credits E. Anthony as publisher. The card dates from the years just after Perry's 1852-1854 expedition to Japan, which produced the Treaty of Kanagawa and made him a national figure. Cartes de visite like this one were sold in large numbers, so the image helped spread his likeness during that period.
| Created / published | [between 1854 and 1858] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen. |
| Genre | PA : Stackpole Books |
| Notes | Brady photo published by E. Anthony" pencilled on mount. Published in: History of the U.S. Navy / Robert W. Love |
| Subjects | Perry, Matthew Calbraith,--1794-1858. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,776 × 4,697 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220997 |
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