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[Andrew Jackson Downing, image totally obscured] – Antique Photo Print

[Andrew Jackson Downing, image totally obscured], [between 1851 and 1852] — historic photograph
[Andrew Jackson Downing, image totally obscured], [between 1851 and 1852]. 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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[Andrew Jackson Downing, image totally obscured]

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Scratched into the back of this half plate is the name "Downing of Newburg," which identifies the sitter as Andrew Jackson Downing, the horticulturist and writer who settled in Newburgh, New York. The plate is badly obscured, so the features are hard to make out, but it came from Mathew Brady's studio in the early 1850s, when Downing was shaping American taste in gardens and rural design. His 1841 *Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening* and his magazine *The Horticulturist* influenced many estates and public grounds of the period, and he died in a steamboat fire on the Hudson River in 1852.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1852]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 452 Downing of Newburg. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,103 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
Reference566_Andrew_Jackson_Downing_1851

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