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[Thomas Sowerby Hamblin, head-and shoulders portrait, slightly to the left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Thomas Sowerby Hamblin, head-and shoulders portrait, slightly to the left], [between 1844 and 1853] — historic photograph
[Thomas Sowerby Hamblin, head-and shoulders portrait, slightly to the left], [between 1844 and 1853]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography 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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Step back in time with [Thomas Sowerby Hamblin, head-and shoulders portrait, slightly to the left], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Thomas Sowerby Hamblin, who managed the Bowery theater in New York, sits turned slightly to the left in this head-and-shoulders study. The plate was made in Mathew Brady's studio sometime between 1844 and 1853, and its gold toning gives the face the warm, softened tone typical of the period. The identification rests on an engraving of Hamblin published in Odell's *Annals of the New York Stage*, and the record notes that this may be a copy daguerreotype, so it is best read as a likeness of the sitter made from another image rather than an original sitting.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1853]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from an identified engraving published in Odell's Annals of the New York Stage, v. 6, p. 222. Scratched on face of plate: 52. Scratched on back of plate: 190. Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Possibly a copy daguerreotype. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsHamblin, Thomas Sowerby,--1800-1853.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,161 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference319_Thomas_Sowerby_Hamblin_1844

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