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Portrait of Mrs. Robert Weir (Lucretia Tuckerman) – Historic Photo Reproduction

Portrait of Mrs. Robert Weir (Lucretia Tuckerman), [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
Portrait of Mrs. Robert Weir (Lucretia Tuckerman), [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Portrait of Mrs. Robert Weir (Lucretia Tuckerman). The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Portrait of Mrs. Robert Weir (Lucretia Tuckerman)

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This glass negative records a painting of Mrs. Robert Weir, identified in the title as Lucretia Tuckerman, hanging at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. Rather than showing the sitter directly, it documents the canvas itself, so the image preserves a work of art as it was displayed in the early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company produced many such copies of paintings and sculptures in museum collections, which were sold as affordable views of art to schools, travelers and households. Its numbered series, like this one labeled M95, helped make American museum holdings widely known beyond the places where the originals hung.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 12 x 10 in.
GenrePortrait paintings Reproductions.Dry plate negatives.
NotesPhotograph of a painting at Worcester Art Museum. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M95. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan835 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77877

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