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Profile portrait of a man in dark coat and cravat – Vintage Photo Print

Profile portrait of a man in dark coat and cravat, 1844 — historic photograph
Profile portrait of a man in dark coat and cravat, 1844. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Profile portrait of a man in dark coat and cravat. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Profile portrait of a man in dark coat and cravat

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A dark coat and a loosely tied cravat are the main features of this profile portrait, which is dated 1844, a time when the daguerreotype was only about five years old. Daguerreotypes were made on silvered copper plates, and their sitters had to hold still for long exposures, which is one reason so many early portraits show formal, composed faces. Because the image is a profile rather than the frontal pose more common in the period, it offers a slightly different view of how sitters presented themselves to the new camera. The sitter's name is not recorded here, so the picture is best read as a window onto fashion and portrait practice in the mid-1840s.

Created / published1844
Original scan1,191 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference241_John_P_Hale_headandshou_1844

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