[Junius Booth, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in theatrical costume] – Vintage Poster
![[Junius Booth, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in theatrical costume], [between 1844 and 1852] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/51/5114235748fe-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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[Junius Booth, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in theatrical costume] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Junius Booth, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in theatrical costume]
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Its sitter is identified in the record as Junius Brutus Booth, the English-born tragedian who settled in America in 1821 and became one of its best-known Shakespearean actors, though an 1899 Scribner's Magazine listing also offers Edwin Forrest as a possibility. This half-length plate, in gold-toned daguerreotype, shows the sitter in theatrical costume, turned three-quarters to the left. It was produced in Mathew Brady's studio at some point between 1844 and 1852, and Booth's death in 1852 places it near the end of his career.
| Created / published | [between 1844 and 1852] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860. |
| Notes | Identification from Scribner's Magazine, October, 1899, no. 4. Scratched on back of plate: 290. Alternative identification: Edwin Forrest, actor. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Exhibit loan 4116-L. Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. |
| Subjects | Booth, Junius Brutus,--1796-1852. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,826 × 4,653 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220267 |
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