Mr. W.D. Howells / Zaida Ben Yusuf. – Historic Reproduction
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(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 Mr. W.D. Howells / Zaida Ben Yusuf.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mr. W.D. Howells / Zaida Ben Yusuf.
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Novelist William Dean Howells, the realist who edited the *Atlantic Monthly* and wrote *The Rise of Silas Lapham*, sits for this portrait by Zaida Ben-Yusuf, a photographer known for her studies of notable sitters in New York and London. The image is a platinum print, a process prized around 1900 for its soft tonal range and matte surface. It was reproduced in the *Saturday Evening Post* in June 1901, when Howells's literary reputation was at its height. The print later entered Frances Benjamin Johnston's collection of artistic photographs, which offers a useful trail for anyone tracing how such portraits circulated.
| Created / published | [ca. 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : platinum ; 12.5 x 15.3 cm. on gray paper mount, 32.2 x 28.3 cm., with black intermediate mount. |
| Genre | D.C. |
| Notes | Title from item. Signed on mount. DLC FBJ label no. 17. DLC Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. DLC Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. DLC Published in: Saturday Evening Post, 1 June 1901, p. 13. Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001, p. 145. Exhibited in: The life and portrait photography of Zaida Ben-Yusuf" at the National Portrait Gallery |
| Subjects | Howells, William Dean,--1837-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,246 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141191 |
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