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[Nathaniel Green, half-length portrait, facing front, seated with arm on table with tablecloth] – Vintage Wall Art

[Nathaniel Green, half-length portrait, facing front, seated with arm on table with tablecloth], [between 1840 and 1850] — historic photograph
[Nathaniel Green, half-length portrait, facing front, seated with arm on table with tablecloth], [between 1840 and 1850]. 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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Nathaniel Green sits half-length, facing the camera with one arm resting on a draped tablecloth, a relaxed yet formal pose. The accompanying note identifies him as a brother of Levi Green and a son of William Green, who was wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, linking this 1840s portrait to a family with Revolutionary-era roots. Made as a sixth-plate daguerreotype, the image sits on a polished silver surface that reflects light and shifts with the viewing angle. The photographer is unidentified, but the hallmark and case style place it within the commercial portrait trade of the 1840s.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1850]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 36a. Case: variant of Rinhart 166. Accompanying note: Nathaniel Green, brother of Levi Green and son of William Green who was wounded in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,289 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference277_Nathaniel_Green_halflen_1840

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