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[Robert John Walker, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right] – Historic Photograph Print

[Robert John Walker, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Robert John Walker, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right], [between 1844 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Robert John Walker, the Mississippi senator who later served as Treasury Secretary under President James K. Polk, sits turned three-quarters to the right in this half-length daguerreotype. Mathew Brady's studio produced the plate sometime between 1844 and 1860, when the daguerreotype was the dominant portrait medium in America. An engraved mezzotint by T. Doney helped establish the sitter's identity. The gold toning warms the silvered surface, and a number scratched on the back hints at how studios kept track of their plates.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 56. Identification from mezzotint by T. Doney. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsWalker, Robert J. (Robert John),--1801-1869.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,192 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116360

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