or 1847 – Historic Print
(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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This seated, three-quarter length daguerreotype shows Mary Todd Lincoln, who had married Abraham Lincoln in 1842, a few years before he went to Washington as a one-term congressman. The plate was probably made around 1846, when portrait studios across the country were turning out these one-of-a-kind images on silvered copper, and the photographer is only tentatively identified as Nicholas H. Shepherd. The image was given to the Library of Congress in 1937 by Mary Lincoln Isham, a granddaughter of the couple, and it remains one of the few early likenesses of Mary from before the White House years.
| Created / published | c. 1846 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photograph, quarter plate daguerreotype |
| Notes | Mary Todd Lincoln, Three-Quarter Length Portrait Of A Woman, Seated, Facing Front. Photographer (possibly) Nicholas H. Shepherd. Gift to the Library Of Congress by Mary Lincoln Isham, 1937 |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 3,198 × 4,098 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | L-F-12 |
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