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[Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, wearing beret] – Historic Photograph Print

[Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, wearing beret] — historic print
[Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, wearing beret]. Historic print 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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Richard Wagner, the German composer of music dramas such as "Tristan und Isolde" and the Ring cycle, sits here in a head-and-shoulders study with his face turned to the right and a beret on his head. The record gives no date, but the halftone process places the print in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, when photomechanical reproduction let portraits of famous musicians circulate widely in newspapers, magazines and books. Wagner had died in 1883, so images like this one kept his likeness in public view and fed the enormous interest in his work and his controversial persona.

Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,500 × 2,224 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136170

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