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[Sesto Benedetti, three-quarter length portrait, facing three-quarters to right, with beard, sitting in chair, wearing large ring and figured waistcoat] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Sesto Benedetti, three-quarter length portrait, facing three-quarters to right, with beard, sitting in chair, wearing large ring and figured waistcoat], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Sesto Benedetti, three-quarter length portrait, facing three-quarters to right, with beard, sitting in chair, wearing large ring and figured waistcoat], [between 1844 and 1860]. 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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Few daguerreotypes in this group name their sitter as firmly as this one, which is identified as Sesto Benedetti, a New York stage figure whose likeness survives in a lithograph by François d'Avignon reproduced in Odell's *Annals of the New York Stage*. He sits turned three-quarters to the right, with a full beard, a large ring, and a figured waistcoat, a pose that presents him as a man of some standing. Made between 1844 and 1860 in Mathew Brady's studio, the plate has gold toning that warms its silver surface, and numbers scratched on its face and back point to the studio's own record-keeping.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from lithograph by Francois d'Avignon reproduced in Odell's Annals of the New York Stage, vol. 5, opp. page 310. Scratched on face of plate: 194; Benedetti. Scratched on back of plate: 184. Hallmark: Rinhart 46a. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,295 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference38_Sesto_Benedetti_threequ_1844

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