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[Andrew Jackson, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Andrew Jackson, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right], [1845] — historic photograph
[Andrew Jackson, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right], [1845]. 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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Few portraits of Andrew Jackson were made so close to his death. This daguerreotype is inscribed with a Hermitage date of April 15, 1845, less than two months before he died there in June. The seventh president was then in failing health, and the plate was copied and engraved as the frontispiece of the *Democratic Review* that September. Several makers have been credited with the original, including Anthony, Edwards and Co. and Brady, so the exact photographer remains uncertain.

Created / published[1845]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesCopy daguerreotype. Scratched on face of plate: 151; Andrew Jackson. Scratched on back of plate: 43. Reproduced as frontispiece in the Democratic Review for September 1845 and later in the same review for July 1846 with plate inscription: ...From a daguerreotype by Anthony, Edwards and Co. Engraved by T. Doney, N.Y. Hermitage, Apr. 15, 1845. Attributed to several daguerreotypists including Edward Anthony, Anthony Edwards and Co., Dan Adams of Nashville, Tenn., and Brady. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 330. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsJackson, Andrew,--1767-1845.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,220 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference145_Andrew_Jackson_halfleng_1845

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