[Joannette Clark Benjamin, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, facing front, seated] – Vintage Photo Print
![[Joannette Clark Benjamin, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, facing front, seated], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4f/4f382b9a8331-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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A window into the past: [Joannette Clark Benjamin, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, facing front, seated], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Joannette Clark Benjamin, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, facing front, seated]
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Joannette Clark Benjamin, born in 1814 or 1815 and died in 1880, sits three-quarter length and faces the camera in this small sixth-plate daguerreotype. The image has been hand-colored, a practice in which an artist added pigment to the silvered plate to bring tone to the face and clothing that the process could not record. Daguerreotype portraits made between 1840 and 1860 were usually kept in protective cases and gave each sitter a single, unique likeness. The photographer is unidentified, but the portrait entered the Library of Congress as a gift from Frances Benjamin Johnston, a photographer who collected early photographic work.
| Created / published | [between 1840 and 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860. |
| Notes | Photographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 133. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: Francis Benjamin Johnston collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Benjamin, Joanette Clark,--1814 or 1815-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,282 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 40_Joannette_Clark_Benjami_1840 |
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